Ethics for adversaries : the morality of roles in public and professional life / Arthur Isak Applbaum.

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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999.

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22280

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Professional ethics.

Political ethics.

Adversary system (Law)

Contents:

1. Arguments for adversaries

2. Professional detachment: the executioner of Paris

3. Doctor, schmoctor: practice positivism and its complications

4. The remains of the role

5. Are Lawyers liars? The argument of redescription

6. Rules of the game and fair play

7. Are violations of rights ever right?

8. Ethics in equilibrium

9. Democractic legitimacy and official discretion

10. Montaigne's mistake.

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Includes index.

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0691007128

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xii, 273 p.