Ethics for adversaries : the morality of roles in public and professional life
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Ethics for adversaries : the morality of roles in public and professional life
（Princeton paperbacks）
Princeton University Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
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 Adversaries is 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 the punitive needs of the ancien regime for decades. Come the French Revolution, the King's Executioner becomes the king's executioner, and he ministers with professional detachment to each defeated political faction throughout the Terror and its aftermath. By exploring one extraordinary role and the arguments that can be offered in its defense, Applbaum raises unsettling doubts about arguments in defense of less sanguinary professions and their practices.
To justify harmful acts, adversaries appeal to arguments about the rules of the game, fair play, consent, the social construction of actions and actors, good outcomes in equilibrium, and the legitimate authority of institutions. Applbaum concludes that these arguments are weaker than supposed and do not morally justify much of the violation that professionals and public officials inflict. Institutions and the roles they create ordinarily cannot mint moral permissions to do what otherwise would be morally prohibited.
目次
AcknowledgmentsPt. INecessary Offices1Ch. 1Arguments for Adversaries3Ch. 2Professional Detachment: The Executioner of Paris15Pt. IIRoles and Reasons43Ch. 3Doctor, Schmoctor: Practice Positivism and Its Complications45Ch. 4The Remains of the Role61Ch. 5Are Lawyers Liars? The Argument of Redescription76Pt. IIIGames and Violations111Ch. 6Rules of the Game and Fair Play113Ch. 7Are Violations of Rights Ever Right?136Ch. 8Ethics in Equilibrium175Pt. IVAuthority and Dissent205Ch. 9Democratic Legitimacy and Official Discretion207Ch. 10Montaigne's Mistake240Sources and Credits261Index263
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