Administrative ethics involves the application of moral principles to the conduct of officials in organizations In the form with which we are primarily concerned here (ethics in public organizations), administrative ethics is a species of political ethics, which applies moral prin- ciples to political life more generally. Broadly speaking, moral principles specify (a) the rights and duties that individuals should respect when they act in ways that seriously affect the well- being of other individuals and society; and (b) the conditions that collective practices and policies should satisfy when they similarly affect the well-being of individuals and society. Moral principles require a disinterested perspective. Instead of asking how an action or policy serves the interest of some particular individual or group, morality asks whether the action or policy serves everyone's interest, or whether it could be accepted by anyone who did not know his or her particular circumstances, such as race, social dass, or nationality. Moral judgments presuppose the possibility ofa person to make the judgment and a person or group of persons to be judged.