Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles

AvJustin Oakley,Dean Cocking

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

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Professionals, it is said, have no use for simple lists of virtues and vices. The complexities and constraints of professional roles create peculiar moral demands on the people who occupy them, and traits that are vices in ordinary life are praised as virtues in the context of professional roles. Should this disturb us, or is it naive to presume that things should be otherwise? Taking medical and legal practice as key examples, Justin Oakley and Dean Cocking develop a rigorous articulation and defence of virtue ethics, contrasting it with other types of character-based ethical theories and showing that it offers a promising new approach to the ethics of professional roles. They provide insights into the central notions of professional detachment, professional integrity, and moral character in professional life, and demonstrate how a virtue-based approach can help us better understand what ethical professional-client relationships would be like.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-10-18
Mått:160 x 237 x 19 mm
Vikt:455 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:204
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521793056

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Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Dean Cocking is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia. He has published a number of articles in journals including Ethics and The Journal of Philosophy. Justin Oakley is Director of the Monash University Centre for Human Bioethics. His publications include Morality and the Emotions (1992) and a number of journal articles.

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'The great achievement of this book is that it renders virtue ethics plausible … It certainly offers a new and constructive way of viewing the meaning and the purpose, the roles and the goods of professional life.' Heythrop Journal

Innehållsförteckning

Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The nature of virtue ethics; 2. The regulative ideals of morality and the problem of friendship; 3. A virtue ethics approach to professional roles; 4. Ethical models of the good general practitioner; 5. Professional virtues, ordinary vices; 6. Professional detachment in health care and legal practice; Bibliography; Index.