ABSTRACT
The conclusions re-affirm the need for an ethics founded on competent assessments of the means for action and of what is possible under specific circumstances, while also gauging the political consequences and distributional effects of proposed decisions. If adopted at all level of decision making, this attitude also would make it more difficult to relinquish responsibility for the consequences of our acts, and for disengaging from politics. Intra-agential agency recognizes our interconnectedness, a degree of openness of “what-is” and at the same time the impossibility to determine what will be. An intra-agential ethos supports creative, critical, modest and responsible political engagements.
