The most general dallenge to administrative would be to deny the possibility of ethics at all or the possibility of political ethics. Although a worthy chall it should not bethe primary concern of defenders of administrative ethics. Theorists (as well as practitioners when they think about ethics at all have been so preoccu- pied with general objections to ethics that they have neglected objections that apply specifically to ethics in administration. They have not suffi- dently considered that evenifwe accept the pos- sibility of morality in general andeven politics, we may have doubts about itin organizations.