Ethics and excuses : the crisis in professional responsibility / / Banks McDowell
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| Autore: |
McDowell Banks
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| Titolo: |
Ethics and excuses : the crisis in professional responsibility / / Banks McDowell
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| Pubblicazione: | Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2000 |
| London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (ix, 169 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 174 |
| Soggetto topico: | Ethics - United States |
| Responsibility - United States | |
| Excuses | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-166) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction The Ethical Crisis; 2 Responsibility and Excuses; 3 Ethical Excuses; 4 Law and Ethics The Different Systems; 5 Defenses The Legal Excuses; 6 The Fallibility of Human Beings; 7 The Informal Moral Codes; 8 The Need to Reformulate Ethical Expectations; 9 The Professional and the Market-Is Efficiency the Predominant Value; 10 The Responsibility of Others toward the Excuse Giver: The Need for Dialogue; 11 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Examines the excuses professionals make when accused of acting unethically, and asks when they are valid and when not. This study of excuses aims to provide a challenging way to think about the nature of ethical problems in the professions and to suggest ways of solving them. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Ethics and excuses |
| ISBN: | 979-84-00-64755-0 |
| 1-280-87245-4 | |
| 9786610872459 | |
| 0-313-00045-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826582103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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