This volume aims to redress the neglect of role ethics by confronting the tensions between impartial morality and role obligations in analytic philosophy and the Confucian tradition.
Tim Dare is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of The Counsel of Rogues? A Defence of the Standard Conception of the Lawyer's Role (2009). He has also written on the philosophy of law and applied and professional ethics.
Christine Swanton is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of The Virtue Ethics of Hume and Nietzsche (2015), Virtue Ethics: A Pluralist View (2005), and Freedom: A Coherence Theory (1992).