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Perspectives in Role Ethics: Virtues, Reasons, and Obligation book cover

1st Edition

Perspectives in Role Ethics Virtues, Reasons, and Obligation

Edited By Tim Dare, Christine Swanton Copyright 2020
232 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction



Tim Dare and Christine Swanton





Part I: Roles and Morality





1. Characters and Roles



Glen Pettigrove





2. Roles all the Way Down



Tim Dare





3. Expertise and Virtue in Role Ethics



Christine Swanton





4. The Role of Roles in Normative Economy of a Life



Gregory Cooper





Part II: Role Ethics and Confucianism





5. Roles and Virtues: Early Confucians on Social Order and the Different Aspects of Ethics



Aaron Stalnaker





6. That’s What Friends Are For: A Confucian Perspective on the Moral Significance of Friendship



Cheryl Cottine





Part III: Professional Roles





7. Crossing the Bridge



W. Bradley Wendel





8. Role Virtues, Doctor-Patience Relationships, and Virtuous Policy



Justin Oakley





Part IV: Roles and Reasons





9. Deliberative Restriction and Professional Roles



Garrett Cullity





10. Roles and Reasons



Sophie Grace Chappell

Biography

Tim Dare is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of The Counsel of Rogues? A Defence of the Standard Conception of the Lawyer’s Role (2009). He has also written on the philosophy of law and applied and professional ethics.



Christine Swanton is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of The Virtue Ethics of Hume and Nietzsche (2015), Virtue Ethics: A Pluralist View (2005), and Freedom: A Coherence Theory (1992).

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