Etică și motivație în profesia de magistrat
Ethics and motivation in the magistrate

Summary/Abstract: Abiding by the law is a general obligation for any citizen. But when the magistrate has to abide by the law by applying and enforcing it upon others, Pandora box might be opening. Therefore, it is very important that magistrates do rely on good faith and strong knowledge of moral principles, together with epistemological knowledge, while being highly motivated by doing the right thing – and the right thing in our profession is justice – this comes as the main idea of ethics for magistrates. Ethics is a branch of philosophy, defined as a field of intellectual enquiry about what a person should do and should not do, involving concepts of right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime. The term derives from the Ancient Greek word ,,ἦθος” (,,ethos”) which is an entity itself as the Greek language is terminological – and may be translated as ,,virtuous habit”. Ethics is also referred to as morality (from the later Latin „moralitas” – ,,manner, character, proper behavior”). „Although the morality of people and their ethics amounts to the same thing, there is a usage that restricts morality to systems such as that of Immanuel Kant, based on notions such as duty, obligation, and principles of conduct, reserving ethics for the more Aristotelian approach to practical reasoning, based on the notion of a virtue, and generally avoiding the separation of 'moral' considerations from other practical considerations” [Simon Blackburn, Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (2nd ed.), 2008, p. 240].

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