Sison, Alejo Jose G.2019-09-252019-09-252010-03-09http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/174050The error of most approaches to governance consists in understanding this task as “production” rather than “action”. The end then becomes the formulation of codes, the setting up of structures and the design of processes instead of governing the firm well within the wider context of society. Together with this overdependence on codes comes the neglect for the virtues of mind and character in the education of the ruler or executive. Not that Aristotle holds written laws in disdain; they are a safeguard against arbitrariness and exert a powerful influence in moulding habit and custom. But he upholds the superiority of habit and custom over the law, for absent coercion, it is from habit and custom that the law draws strength.engWith permission of the license/copyright holderGood governanceAristotelian ethicsPolitical ethicsGovernance and ethicsPreprint