The Foundations of the Professions and of Professional Ethics: A Critical and Constructive Study
AbstractThe purpose of this article is to study critically the positions of six authors on the foundations of the professions and of professional ethics. These positions are placed along a continuum which is created by correlating two variables that appear in each author's writings. The implied or explicit anthropology and metaethical theory of the authors are central concerns of the study. The issue whether the professional is governed by role-specific duties or by role-distinctive duties is analyzed in depth. In the end, the author cannot accept any of the six positions and so the final section of the article fashions a constructive proposal grounded in a social metaphysics of the human person.
2016 ◽
Vol 13
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pp. 447-466
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Vol 18
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pp. 384-384
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2018 ◽
Vol 28
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pp. 17-17
2019 ◽
Vol 29
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pp. 14-14
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