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Document Details : Title: Teaching Professional Ethics Author(s): RAES, Koen Journal: Ethical Perspectives Volume: 4 Issue: 4 Date: December 1997 Pages: 243-245 DOI: 10.2143/EP.4.4.562985 Abstract : In teaching professional ethics to students of a particular profession (engineers, physicians, psychotherapists, managers and lawyers, in my case), one must start from the actions which are essential within the professional practice which is central to a particular academic training. Although universities do not, as such, provide particular profession-oriented trainings, but are, in the main, inspired by scientific research, most curricula are nevertheless clearly linked to professional careers. First and foremost, we should elucidate the values at stake from an internal perspective, from within the human — and thus socioculturally determined practice which is itself oriented toward particular values. |
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