Roles and Moral Irrelevance

"What is characteristic of this role of a lawyer is the lawyer's required indifference to a wide variety of ends and consequences that in other contexts would be of undeniable moral significance."

Examples of tasks lawyers do:

"... in each case, the role-differentiated character of the lawyer's way of being tends to render irrelevant what would otherwise be morally relevant considerations."


Richard Lee, rlee@uark.edu, last modified: 2 March 2010