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Transparency International defines corruption as ?the abuse of entrusted power [which is entrusted by public] for private gain?. This paper will analyze the corruption habits from the perspective of virtue ethics. It will start with Manuel Velasquez?s analysis of the practice of corruption in the so-called ?neopatrimonialism? type of political culture, which Indonesia being a case in point. Neopatrimonialism consists of a mixture between modern bureaucratic administration and the old patrimonial communalism. In terms of the communal perspective, what Transparency International calls ?corruption? is compatible with the beneficence principle. But, according to the norm of bureaucratic administration, it violates the non-maleficence principle. To uproot corruption, this paper will discuss Amartya Sen?s concept of the ethics of impartiality, in which human being should extend the circle of moral recipients.
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