Faith and the Professions - Hardcover

Shaffer, Thomas L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0887065619 ISBN 13: 9780887065613

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1987

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887065619
• ISBN 13: 9780887065613
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 347