Argument for Action: Ethics and Professional Conduct

by Robert M. Lawrence

This work argues that in the modern world, ethical justification needs to be grounded in rational action for human well-being; and that justifiable professional conduct is not reasonably grounded unless and until it can be related to this basic value. It helps each occupation to identify if it is to provide adequate justification for its conduct and links the relatively recent rediscovery of ethics with the continuing significance of the idea of professionalism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840149981
• ISBN13: 9781840149982
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
• Length: 328 Pages