Perspectives in role ethics : virtues, reasons, and obligation / edited by Tim Dare and Christine Swanton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dare, Tim, LLB., editor.

Swanton, Christine, 1947- editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in ethics and moral theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Role expectation.

Social role--Moral and ethical aspects.

Social role.

Confucian ethics.

Physical Description:

vi, 224 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138497993

1138497991

OCLC:

1096230068