Professional Integrity : Thinking Ethically

"With elegant prose and ample illustrations, Pritchard's book explores the interplay of virtues, ideals, and moral rules in everyday life and in the professions. Sound, sophisticated, and wonderfully lucid, it makes a very important contribution to the study of ethics."--Mike W. Martin, author of Meaningful Work"Pritchard's wholly readable style belies the subtlety, depth, and erudition of his Professional Integrity. This is a foundational book, one that emphasizes the aspirations and virtues of true professionals. Everyone in the field of professional ethics will profit by closely studying the enormous range of examples and arguments he provides."--Robert P. Lawry, Director, Center for Professional Ethics, CASE School of Law "Pritchard s important account of the richness and complexity of professional responsibility is unmatched in the literature."--Martin Benjamin, author of Splitting the Difference: Compromise and Integrity in Ethics and Politics "A wonderfully wide-ranging, philosophically attuned, practically sensitive, and highly readable account."--George G. Brenkert, director, Georgetown Business Ethics Institute "This book leads us to evaluate our own philosophical development, to reimagine the role of integrity in applied and professional ethics, and to help the reader to think about what professional and practical ethics we teach and how we teach them."--Ethics"Chapters address the subjects of truthfulness, good judgment, professional integrity, basic duties, good works, working together, dispositions, and moral development. Throughout the discussion Pritchard's clear style and helpful references to the history of professional ethical thought make this an interesting, informative read. His good explanation and illumination of the nature of ethical deliberation with incompletely theorized agreement contribute to making this book a helpful addition to the business ethics/professional ethics literature."--Choice