Ontology of corruption: concept and content
The article provides an explanation and description of the corruption phenomenon based on the deductive-nomological model by Carl Gustav Hempel. It is proved that corruption owes its appearance as a social construct and further life affirmation to events, phenomena and processes of various properties, including anthropological, economic, ethical and institutional ones. In ontological terms, corruption is an object of reality, organized complexity, endowed with the properties of a positive and negative nature. Corruption is a function of two main arguments: the monopoly power of officials and an unlimited degree of freedom and other representatives of discretionary power. These two arguments are considered as both a subject and an object of the fight against corruption. Therefore, it seems quite reasonable to conclude that the cardinal tool of the fight against corruption is a systematic double-testing procedure, both for those who have already fallen into power and for its applicants in order to identify real personalities whose deep imperative of thought is concern for the power and prosperity of the country.