Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles

ISBN-13: 9780521027298 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 204 str.

Justin Oakley; Dean Cocking

Opis

Taking medical and legal practice as key examples, the authors 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.