Thomas Nagel | Ruthlessness in Public Life

Multiple Choice

Thomas Nagel | Ruthlessness in Public Life
Nagel discusses the effects of public roles on personal morality and determines that a depersonalization of, or moral insularity from, one's behavior can occur when people act as agents of a larger institution. He presents the theory of obligation as a way to understand this moral peculiarity, analyzes personal and public morality of outcomes and morality of actions, concluding that personal moral restraints can guide public life even with its more impersonal and impartial goals.
-According to Nagel, the degree of acceptable ruthlessness in public life depends on moral features of the

A) employees.
B) politicians.
C) institutions.
D) educational academies.