"We felt, 'Shouldn't we have a vision?' We felt a need to revisit essential core values of impartiality, objectivity".
Less recognized was the Bush administration's larding the top ranks of the department with "loyal Bushies" like Ms. Paulose, who undermined the values of impartiality that the Justice Department is supposed to uphold.
But instead of deciding openly to adopt the American system, Mr Blair has tried to superimpose elements of it on top of a civil-service machine that is still striving manfully to carry on in the time-honoured way, adhering to rules that embody the time-honoured values of impartiality.
In their article, which appeared in the Daily Telegraph, the two men wrote that in contrast to her public persona Lady Thatcher was a keen supporter of the civil service's "values of impartiality and integrity" "Contrary to what many have suggested," they said, "Mrs Thatcher never sought to staff No 10 with 'Yes men' or civil servants who shared her politics.
For Arendt, therefore, the danger of trying to recapture the sense of intimacy and warmth, of authenticity and communal feelings is that one loses the public values of impartiality, civic friendship, and solidarity.
For instance, Kantian constructivism appears to be grounded on the value of moral impartiality, that is, the demand of equal respect for persons (Scanlon 1998, 22 33; cf. 287 290; Rawls 1993, 38 54).
"[T]hat's one of the biggest problems we've got in how folks report about Washington right now, because I think journalists rightly value the appearance of impartiality and objectivity," Obama observed.
The values of political impartiality, advancement on merit and the public service ethos should be as cherished and nurtured today as ever.
It proclaims it has built its success on "core values of speed, impartiality and unparalleled depth of coverage", but instead of highlighting the war in Mali or rows over new high speed rail links, the headlines were more than six months old and include Roger Federer beating Andy Murray at Wimbledon and the latest injury news from last summer's England vs South Africa test cricket series.
These, however, seem to involve no meta-theory of dao of the type traced in the Zhuangzi history although they can be seen as early indications of the value of Daoist egalitarianism and impartiality.
