Dean Cocking

Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles

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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 th… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Oakley, Justin / Justin, Oakley

ISBN: 978-0-521-79305-6
EAN: 9780521793056
Produktnummer: 9122022
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Seitenangabe: 204 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.6 cm 474 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 474

Über den Autor

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.