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1. Terminology “State ethics” is an unusual term for English-speaking readers and must be explained in view of its continental European presuppositions. The term “state ethics” in the sense of governmental ethics would mean, if it were used at all, rules of “good administration”—thus, dependability and punctuality, as well as lack of corruption or discrimination. The heart of the problem of different semantics lies in the image of “state.” In Anglo-American legal ¶ circles it is difficult to imagine that the government, understood as a superindividual entity, should …