Professional Ethics and the Concept of the ‘Merits’
作者:
ROBERT F. BAUER,
期刊:
Journal of Applied Philosophy
(WILEY Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 13,
issue 1
页码: 21-30
ISSN:0264-3758
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5930.1996.tb00146.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACTThis paper examines the significance to professional decision‐making of the concept of the ‘merits’. The merits serve in practical affairs to delineate considerations appropriate to ethical decision‐making and require in particular the avoidance of ‘self‐interest’. Drawing on the example of politics, it is argued that the boundaries of the ‘merits’are never fixed across professional fields but rather are determined by the distinctive character of the professional's fiduciary responsibilities; and that properly understood, the merits may demand some ‘self‐interested’considerations which in the common conception would be rejected. The political example also suggests how the ‘ethical’conflict over the accepted boundaries of the merits can mask fundamental normative and political differences which wo
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