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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.Thomas L. Shaffer is Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University Law School.

Author

Shaffer, Thomas L., 1934-

Publisher

Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University ; Albany, N.Y.: Distributed by State University of New York Press

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9781438434216

Subjects

Medical, Philosophy, Medicine