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Dear colleagues,
Join us next week (April 5 at 5:30 PM) for our Ethics in Business Seminar. The great Amalia Amaya Navarro (University of Edinburgh, UK) will present her paper "Virtues and Values in Professional Ethics."

Join us in person (Rose Hill campus, Hughes Hall 307) if you are around or by Zoom if you are not. 

Please kindly RSVP here.

Amalia Amaya is the British Academy Global Professor at Edinburgh Law School and Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She works primarily in the philosophy of law, although she is also interested in some issues in moral and political theory. She is the author of The Tapestry of Reason: An Inquiry into the Nature of Coherence and its Role in Legal Argument (2015). She is now working on a book manuscript that develops a virtue approach to legal reasoning and judicial ethics. In addition, she is engaged in research on three themes: the role of exemplarity in legal and political culture, fraternity as a legal and political ideal, and ambivalence in legal decision-making.

Abstract: Reflection on professional values and principles has taken center stage in contemporary discussions on professional ethics. In this paper, Prof. Amaya-Navarro argues that a full-fledged ethics of the professions needs to incorporate virtues as a core element within the theory. First, she provides some reasons in support of giving virtue, alongside values and principles, a central role in the ethics of the professions, Virtues, she argues, are not reducible to values, with which are related in complex ways. Secondly, she develops a skill model of professional virtue, with a focus on the creative professions, and examines some of the key character traits that are needed to excel in these professions. Last, she will point out some advantages of the virtue approach to professional ethics. The paper concludes by suggesting some implications of this approach for professional education and institutional design.