Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles

by Justin Oakley and Dean Cocking

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052179305X
• ISBN13: 9780521793056
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"