Articles

LA CORRUPTION:
LA DENSITE DE NOTRE IDENTITE EN JEU
Symphorien Ntibagirirwa
Ethique & Société

Abstract :This editorial note attempts to frame the various articles published in this issue. It argues that, as a phenomenon which is as old as the human history and civilisation, corruption is characteristic of the human weak nature, or better, the fall, biblically speaking. As such, corruption deprives us of our ontological density as beings that aspire to what is good and right in so far as we are created in the image and resemblance of God. It puts a break to our sustained move to moral life as corrupt people tend to give priority to calculative rationality (which seeks short-term individual dividends) over comprehensive rationality open to sustainable results characteristic of the common good. It gives priority to individuality over sociality. This being the case, corruption is a universally evil phenomenon even in those societies where it is hardly observed or where it does not seem to have effects on the socio-political order and economic prosperity. It is within this framework that different analyses and reflections are introduced.