Ethics for Adversaries The Morality of Roles in Public and Professional Life

Name: Ethics for Adversaries The Morality of Roles in Public and Professional Life
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ISBN: 9780691057392

ISBN-10: 0691057397

ISBN-13: 9780691057392

Edition: 2000

Authors: Arthur Isak Applbaum

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The adversary professions--law, business, and government, among others--typically claim a moral permission to violate persons in ways that, if not for the professional role, would be morally wrong. Lawyers advance bad ends and deceive, business managers exploit and despoil, public officials enforce unjust laws, and doctors keep confidences that, if disclosed, would prevent harm.Ethics for Adversariesis a philosophical inquiry into arguments that are offered to defend seemingly wrongful actions performed by those who occupy what Montaigne called "necessary offices." Applbaum begins by examining the career of Charles-Henri Sanson, who is appointed executioner of Paris by Louis XVI and serves…

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List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/30/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.13" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Necessary Offices



Arguments for Adversaries



Professional Detachment: The Executioner of Paris



Roles and Reasons



Doctor, Schmoctor: Practice Positivism and Its Complications



The Remains of the Role



Are Lawyers Liars? The Argument of Redescription



Games and Violations



Rules of the Game and Fair Play



Are Violations of Rights Ever Right?



Ethics in Equilibrium



Authority and Dissent



Democratic Legitimacy and Official Discretion



Montaigne's Mistake


Sources and Credits


Index