Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles Hardback - Hardcover

Oakley; Cocking

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052179305X ISBN 13: 9780521793056

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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'The great achievement of this book is that it renders virtue ethics plausible ... It certainly offers a new and constructive way of viewing the meaning and the purpose, the roles and the goods of professional life.' Heythrop Journal

' ... there have been relatively few theoretical contributions of this caliber to the literature on virtues and the professions, this book will be a welcome addition to the field.' Jennifer Welchman, Philosophy in Review

'This excellent volume has something for everyone ... It is a thought-provoking read [and] ...offers a significant contribution to the ethics literature' Derek Sellman, Nursing Philosophy

Biografía del 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.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 052179305X
• ISBN 13: 9780521793056
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 204