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The Psychology of Political Power: Does Power Corrupt or is it Magnetic to the Most Corruptible?
The Psychology of Political Power: Does Power Corrupt or is it Magnetic to the Most Corruptible?

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In January 2022, I attended a conference on ‘Political Power, Morality and Corruption’. A Socratic dialogue with fellow scholars led me back to one question that epistemologically haunts political theory and philosophy to date—Does power corrupt or is it magnetic to the most corruptible? The cornerstone that this question posits on is antithetical to the idea […]
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