Faith and the ProfessionsSUNY Press, 1987 M01 1 - 337 pages Thomas L. Shaffer argues that the morals of modern American lawyers and doctors have been corrupted by misguided professionalism and weak philosophy. He shows that professional codes exalt vocational principle over the traditional morals of character; but that, in practice, America's professionals and business people cultivate the ethics of character. The ethics of virtue have been neglected. The ethical argument in Faith and the Professions is in part an application to professional life of the position taken by Alasdair MacIntyre in After Virtue and in Revisions, and by Robert Bellah and his collaborators in Habits of the Heart. It is also, in part, an argument for the relevance of religious ethics. |
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Contents
Stories | 3 |
Character | 9 |
Stories | 14 |
The Study of American Doctor and Lawyer Heroes | 22 |
Character in Community | 30 |
One Lawyers Moral Theology | 34 |
The Theology of Virtue in the Professions | 37 |
The Bible | 41 |
Character before Code | 155 |
Dissent | 175 |
Retail Justice | 177 |
Dissent as Friendship | 180 |
Dissent without Friendship | 185 |
Dissent as Coming Home | 189 |
Friendship | 195 |
The Issue of Preference | 196 |
The Gentlemans Ethic | 42 |
David Hoffman | 49 |
The Bible as a Source of Medical Ethics | 55 |
The Servant of the Lord | 60 |
Theology | 73 |
The Theology of the Two Kingdoms | 80 |
The Two Kingdoms in American Professional Ethics | 87 |
The Possibility of Influences between the Kingdoms | 89 |
The Morals of the Task | 95 |
The Doctrine of One Kingdom | 101 |
The Profession | 113 |
Medicine in Middlemarch | 116 |
Code before Character | 129 |
The Law Firm as Moral Teacher | 133 |
Failure to Teach | 142 |
Williams and Arrowsmith | 146 |
Work | 152 |
Three Traditional and Positive Arguments for Preferring Friends | 203 |
Gentle Cynicism | 209 |
Beginning with Persons | 210 |
Finding Professional Work Worthwhile as a Social Ethic | 213 |
Friendship as a Social Ethic | 216 |
The Dissenters Theory of Social and Political Power | 224 |
Schools | 231 |
Brother Justinians Visit | 232 |
Friendship and Truth | 256 |
Pookas | 271 |
Acknowledgments | 285 |
Permissions | 287 |
Chapter Notes | 289 |
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