Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles

Author/Contributor(s):	Oakley, Justin
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Date:	11/02/2006
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.