Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles
Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles

Author: Justin Oakley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-10-18

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1139432184

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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 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.

Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles
Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles

Author: Justin Oakley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-11-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780521027298

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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.

Torture and the Military Profession
Torture and the Military Profession

Author: J. Wolfendale

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-10-04

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0230592805

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Wolfendale argues that the prevalence of military torture is linked to military training methods that cultivate the psychological dispositions connected to crimes of obedience. While these methods are used, the military has no credible claim to professional status.

Understanding Virtue Ethics
Understanding Virtue Ethics

Author: Stan van Hooft

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-18

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1317494032

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More and more philosophers have advocated varieties of virtue-based ethics that challenge moral theory traditionally founded on moral obligation and the delineation of what is right or wrong in given situations. Virtue ethics, which focuses upon the character of moral agents more than on the moral status of their actions or the consequences of those actions, has become one of the most important and stimulating areas of contemporary ethical theory. "Understanding Virtue Ethics" is an accessible and lively introduction to the subject. It provides a broad overview of the history of virtue ethics from Aristotle to Nietzsche as well as examining the ideas of such contemporary writers as Ricoeur and Levinas. Major themes dealt with by moral theory are examined and how a virtue ethics approach to them differs from those of other traditions is explored. Practical problems of moral complexity such as abortion, euthanasia, and integrity in politics, and how they might be approached from a virtue perspective are considered. The charges of relativism and egoism that are often mounted against virtue ethics are rebutted and virtues that are especially relevant to contemporary life, namely, courage, taking responsibility, and reverence are examined in depth. Finally, the author argues that virtue ethics is highly relevant to our understanding of the moral dimensions of professional roles.

Virtue Ethics and Professional Journalism
Virtue Ethics and Professional Journalism

Author: Aaron Quinn

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-10-30

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 3030014282

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This book examines the moral role of news media practitioners and organizations, and applies a modified philosophical account of Virtue Ethics as a framework for the role of journalists—and journalism organizations—in public life. It shows how journalists and news organizations that adopt an aim towards professional excellence (virtue) by putting a premium on investigative journalism—with both large and small measures depending on the nature of the reporting—can achieve lofty professional goals under modern deadlines. The news media, both electronic and traditional, are imperative to an informed public, and an informed public is critical to a properly functioning cross-section of social, government and corporate domains. The book emphasizes the virtues of justice and integrity as foundational to professional practice. It examines the modern ethical challenges presented by organizations ranging from online upstarts to massive media conglomerates, each that have economic challenges that can inhibit professional excellence through corruption or corrosion. The author applies his account of virtue—bolstered by suggestions for complementary reforms in education and regulation—to improve an ethically challenged industry as it undergoes significant technological change.

Working Virtue
Working Virtue

Author: Rebecca L. Walker

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007-01-04

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0199271658

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A collective study of virtue theory and contemporary moral problems, this work discusses topics in bioethics, professional ethics, ethics of the family, law, interpersonal ethics, and the emotions. It offers a variety of perspectives, including pluralistic, eudaimonistic, care-theoretical, Chinese, comparative and stoic.

The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics
The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics

Author: Paula Gottlieb

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-04-27

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 052176176X

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This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.

Cultivating Moral Character and Virtue in Professional Practice
Cultivating Moral Character and Virtue in Professional Practice

Author: David Carr

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-05

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1351725106

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Cultivating Moral Character and Virtue in Professional Practice is a pioneering collection of essays focused on the place of character and virtue in professional practice. Professional practices usually have codes of conduct designed to ensure good conduct; but while such codes may be necessary and useful, they appear far from sufficient, since many recent public scandals in professional life seem to have been attributable to failures of personal moral character. This book argues that there is a pressing need to devote more attention in professional education to the cultivation or development of such moral qualities as integrity, courage, self-control, service and selflessness. Featuring contributions from distinguished leaders in the application of virtue ethics to professional practice, such as Sarah Banks, Ann Gallagher, Geoffrey Moore, Justin Oakley and Nancy Sherman, the volume looks beyond traditional professions to explore the ethical dimensions of a broad range of important professional practices. Inspired by a successful international and interdisciplinary conference on the topic, the book examines various ways of promoting moral character and virtue in professional life from the general ethical perspective of contemporary neo-Aristotelian virtue theory. The professional concerns of this work are of global significance and the book will be valuable reading for all working in contemporary professional practices. It will be of particular interest to academics, practitioners and postgraduate students in the fields of education, medicine, nursing, social work, business and commerce and military service.

Perspectives in Role Ethics
Perspectives in Role Ethics

Author: Taylor & Francis Group

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-30

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781032177779

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This volume aims to redress the neglect of role ethics by confronting the tensions between impartial morality and role obligations in analytic philosophy and the Confucian tradition.