Corruption, a historical phenomenon that destabilizes society and the state
Keywords:
Corruption, Effects, Society, Democracy.Abstract
The objective of this article is to address the phenomenon of corruption to highlight its deleterious and perennial effects on the economy, politics, institutions and society. Therefore, it is essential to evaluate the different philosophical, sociological and legal approaches to the term corruption, demonstrating that, despite its difficult definition, in essence, it presupposes the degeneration of values, distorting nature and human development. In all its aspects, corruption is a pejorative and harmful phenomenon, derogatory of objects and beings, corrosive of the values inherent to the common good. In this context, it is proposed to verify that, being a phenomenon, corruption expands its effects in a perennial way, destabilizing and weakening institutions, at the same time that it foments levels of instability in society that impede human development, generating hostility, polarization and fragility in social, economic, legal and political relations.
