Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521793056)

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.

Author: Justin Oakley, Dean Cocking
ISBN-10: 052179305X
ISBN-13: 9780521793056
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/18/2001
Pages: 204
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d