Morality for Professionals:
Ordinary Morality and Special Rules

There is a
special morality
There is no
special morality
Ordinary
morality
applies
priority view
and
parallel view
ordinary ethics
suffices for
professionals
Ordinary
morality
does not
apply
professional
relativism
nihilism
(no moral
constraints)

Professional Relativism:Professionals are bound by their own morality but not by "ordinary" morality which applies to the rest of us.
Ordinary ethics suffices:Professionals are bound by the same moral principles (no more, no less) that rest of us are.
Nihilism:Professionals are not bound by morality at all; they are beyond morality. (And maybe the rest of us are too.)
Priority view:Goldman
Parallel view:Ellin


Richard Lee, rlee@uark.edu, last modified: 28 May 2009