书名: Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles
作者: Justin Oakley (Author), Dean Cocking (Author)
出版社: Cambridge University Press (November 19, 2001)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 052179305X
ISBN-13: 978-0521793056
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.
Review
'This excellent but neglected volume has something for everyone. Both sceptics and proponents of virtue ethics will appreciate the carefully constructed arguments that go to make this book an exemplar of good philosophy.' -- Nursing Philosophy
About the Author
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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作者: Justin Oakley (Author), Dean Cocking (Author)
出版社: Cambridge University Press (November 19, 2001)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 052179305X
ISBN-13: 978-0521793056
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.
Review
'This excellent but neglected volume has something for everyone. Both sceptics and proponents of virtue ethics will appreciate the carefully constructed arguments that go to make this book an exemplar of good philosophy.' -- Nursing Philosophy
About the Author
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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