| Faith and the Professions Contributor(s): Shaffer, Thomas L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0887065619 ISBN-13: 9780887065613 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1987 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Medical | Ethics |
| Dewey: 174.2 |
| LCCN: 87000863 |
| Physical Information: (1.52 lbs) 347 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Thomas L. Shaffer argues that the morals of modern American lawyers and doctors have been corrupted by misguided professionalism and weak philosophy. He shows that professional codes exalt vocational principle over the traditional morals of character; but that, in practice, America's professionals and business people cultivate the ethics of character. The ethics of virtue have been neglected. The ethical argument in Faith and the Professions is in part an application to professional life of the position taken by Alasdair MacIntyre in After Virtue and in Revisions, and by Robert Bellah and his collaborators in Habits of the Heart. It is also, in part, an argument for the relevance of religious ethics. |