The Seven Principles of Public Life (also known as the Nolan Principles) apply to anyone who works as a public office-holder.
This includes all those who are elected or appointed to public office, nationally and locally,
and all people appointed to work in the Civil Service, local government, the police, courts and probation services, non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs),
and in the health, education, social and care services.
All public office-holders are both servants of the public and stewards of public resources.
The principles also apply to all those in other sectors delivering public services.
The great UK professor discusses the Nolan Priciples, how it applies today, and the applications in modern life.
The Banality of Evil
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, The New Yorker, 1963.
What did Hannah Arendt really mean by the banality of evil?
C.S. Lewis, Preface to The Screwtape Letters, 1942
“The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid dens of crime that Dickens loved to paint.
It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result.
But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.”
This is a perfect video as we see the last of the Biden administration sleepwalk into the night.
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Thank you for posting this. Dr John Campbell is a treasure.
Thanks for posting. So where does this evil come from? It starts in the mind of the individual. Evil behavior starts with evil thinking. “Inside the Criminal Mind”- Stanton Samenow. When other individuals abandon their reason and take up with or submit to the evil individual, they become an evil collective. The evil individual on their own is not a threat to civilization. The evil collective is.