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  3. Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2009
Print publication year:
2001
Online ISBN:
9780511487118
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511487118
Subjects:
Law: General Interest, Law, Ethics, Philosophy
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Book description

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.

Reviews

‘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.’

Source: Heythrop Journal

‘ … there have been relatively few theoretical contributions of this caliber to the literature on virtues and the professions, this book will be a welcome addition to the field.’

Jennifer Welchman Source: Philosophy in Review

‘This excellent volume has something for everyone … It is a thought-provoking read [and] …offers a significant contribution to the ethics literature’

Derek Sellman Source: Nursing Philosophy

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