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  1. Jean-Paul Sartre (1943) Being and Nothingness Hazel E. Barnes (trans.) London: Routledge: 59–60.

  2. Tim Dare (2009) A Counsel of Rogues: A Defence of the Standard Conception of a Lawyer’s Role, Farnham: Ashgate.

  3. Op cit. 7 and passim.

  4. Harry G. Frankfurt (2004) ‘Taking Ourselves Seriously and Getting Things Right” Tanner Lectures on Human Values, found at http://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documents/a-to-z/f/frankfurt_2005.pdf last accessed 8.32am 12/08/14.

  5. Indeed mainstream professional ethics seems to aspire at producing such professionals.

  6. There have been various attempts by both consequentialists and deontologists to incorporate agent-centred considerations into their theories, largely in response to the revival of Virtue Ethics. Nevertheless, considerations of character must remain secondary to the respective theory’s central concerns.

  7. This is the phrase which Mauss uses to translate Aristotle’s term exis.

  8. I owe this example to Garrett Cullity.

  9. HLA Hart (1961) The Concept of Law. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

  10. John Rawls (1969) “The Justification of Civil Disobedience.” In Hugo Adam Bedau ed., Civil Disobedience: Theory and Practice, pp. 240–255. New York: Pegasus Books.

  11. Australian Medical Association (2006) Code of Ethics and Professionalism found at https://ama.com.au/codeofethics last accessed 27/08/2014 7.55 am.

  12. Julia Annas (2011) Intelligent Virtue. Oxford: OUP: 14.

  13. Op. cit.: 15.

  14. Sabina Lovibond (2002) Ethical Formation. Cambridge Ma & London: Harvard University Press p. 189 Italics in the original.

  15. Peter Winch (1972) ‘Moral Integrity’ in Ethics and Action. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

  16. Lisa Teesman (2005) The Burdened Virtues: Virtue Ethics For Liberatory Struggles. Oxford: OUP (Oxford Studies In Feminist Philosophy): 125. Although Teesman does not make this point explicitly in her book one of the standard theoretical criticisms of Eudaimonistic Virtue Ethics is the implausibility of the claim that virtues benefit their possessors. If Teesman is correct, which I believe she fundamentally is, then this is more a reflection of virtue under conditions of systematic oppression than it is a theoretical flaw.

  17. op. cit. 126.

  18. Ibid.

  19. op. cit. 127.

  20. Bertolt Brecht, 1955. Life of Galileo. Scene 12 In Collected Plays: Five. Trans. John Willett. Ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim. Bertolt Brecht: Plays, Poetry and Prose Ser. London: Methuen, 1980. p. 115.

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Hamilton, R.P. The Wholehearted Professional. J Value Inquiry 50, 735–751 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-016-9578-1

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