I think ethics refers to the code of moral principles and values that govern behaviors with respect to what is right and wrong.
This will lead to openness or Privacy Dialectic. Privacy dialectic captures the wish or longing for both intimacy while we desire or get distance between ourselves and others. The open–closed dialectic is the inner fight stuck between our expression and privacy.
John Locke was a political philosopher who wrote on the necessity of the separation of powers in government as well as the necessity of revolution in overthrowing unjust government. These two values had an enormous impact on both the Declaration of Independence and also the American Constitution. Montesquieu was also an important philosophical thinker who wrote on the value in the separation of powers between the executive, legislative, and judiciary. In addition Montesquieu believed in the creation of a system of checks and balances between the branches of government which also greatly influenced the writing of the American Constitution and the creation of the U.S. Government.
