Perspectives in Role Ethics: Virtues, Reasons, and Obligation

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Tim Dare (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Christine Swanton (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Perspectives in Role Ethics

Virtues, Reasons, and Obligation

Tim Dare (University of Auckland, New Zealand), Christine Swanton (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

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Routledge
30 September 2021

Philosophy; Ethics & moral philosophy; Confucianism; Jurisprudence & general issues; Jurisprudence & philosophy of law

Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

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 between conceptions of impartial morality and role obligations in the history of analytic philosophy and the Confucian tradition. Different perspectives on the ethical significance of roles can be found by looking to debates within professional and applied ethics, by challenging existing accounts of how roles generate reasons, by questioning the hegemony of ethical reasons, and by exploring the relation between expertise and virtue. The essays tackle several core questions related to these debates:

What are roles and what is their normative import?

To what extent are roles and the ethics of roles central to ethics as opposed to virtue in general, and obligation in general?

Are role obligations characteristically incompatible with ordinary morality in professions such as business, law, and medicine?

How does practical reason function in relation to roles?

Perspectives in Role Ethics is an examination of a largely neglected topic in ethics. It will appeal to a broad range of scholars in normative ethics, virtue ethics, non-Western ethics, and applied ethics interested in the importance of roles in our moral life.

Edited by: Tim Dare (University of Auckland New Zealand), Christine Swanton (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 312g
ISBN: 9781032177779
ISBN 10: 1032177772
Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 30 September 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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).