Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles

Informationen zum 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.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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The nature of virtue ethics; 2. The regulative ideals of morality and the problem of friendship; 3. A virtue ethics approach to professional roles; 4. Ethical models of the good general practitioner; 5. Professional virtues, ordinary vices; 6. Professional detachment in health care and legal practice; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Dean Cocking, Cocking Dean, Oakley Justin, Justin Oakley, Justin Cocking Oakley
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.10.2001
• EAN: 9780521793056
• ISBN: 978-0-521-79305-6
• No. of pages: 204
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, LAW / Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy