Perspectives in role ethics virtues, reasons, and obligation / edited by Tim Dare and Christine Swanton.
| Other author | Dare, Tim, LLB. |
| Other author | Swanton, Christine, 1947- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, 2019. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in ethics and moral theory ; Volume 55 |
| Contents | Characters and roles / Glen Pettigrove -- Roles all the way down / Tim Dare -- Expertise and virtue in role ethics / Christine Swanton -- The role of roles in normative economy of a life / Gregory Cooper -- Roles and virtues : early Confucians on social order and the different aspects of ethics / Aaron Stalnaker -- That's what friends are for : a Confucian perspective on the moral significance of friendship / Cheryl Cottine -- Crossing the bridge / W. Bradley Wendel -- Role virtues, doctor-patience relationships, and virtuous policy / Justin Oakley -- Deliberative restriction and professional roles / Garrett Cullity -- Roles and reasons / Sophie Grace Chappell. |
| Abstract | "Although our moral lives would be unrecognisable without them, roles have received little attention from analytic moral philosophers. Roles are central to our lives and to our engagement with one another, and should be analysed in connection with our core notions of ethics such as virtue, reason, and obligation. This volume aims to redress the neglect of role ethics by confronting the tensions between conceptions of impartial morality and role obligations in the history of analytic philosophy and the Confucian tradition. Different perspectives on the ethical significance of roles can be found by looking to debates within professional and applied ethics, by challenging existing accounts of how roles generate reasons, by questioning the hegemony of ethical reasons, and by exploring the relation between expertise and virtue. The essays tackle several core questions related to these debates: - What are roles and what is their normative import? - To what extent are roles and the ethics of roles central to ethics as opposed to virtue in general, and obligation in general? - Are role obligations characteristically incompatible with ordinary morality in professions such as business, law, and medicine? - How does practical reason function in relation to roles? Perspectives in Role Ethics is an examination of a largely neglected topic in ethics. It will appeal to a broad range of scholars in normative ethics, virtue ethics, non-Western ethics, and applied ethics interested in the importance of roles in our moral life"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019020510 |
| ISBN | 9781138497993 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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