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      Professional Ethics and Civic Morals
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      Professional Ethics and Civic Morals book

      ByÉmile Durkheim, Cornelia Brookfield, Bryan S. Turner
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2018
      eBook Published 19 September 2018
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429452901
      Pages 266
      eBook ISBN 9780429452901
      Subjects Social Sciences
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      Durkheim, É. (2018). Professional Ethics and Civic Morals (C. Brookfield, & B.S. Turner, Trans.; 1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429452901

      ABSTRACT

      Émile Durkheim is one of the founding fathers of sociology and Professional Ethics and Civic Morals is one of his most neglected yet insightful works. Durkheim's view that the instability of industrial society was connected to the decline of religion and his characterization of the state as the ultimate moral force in society reveal his lifelong engagement with the relationship between the individual and society.

      In Professional Ethics and Civic Morals Durkheim poses a major question: given the negative social consequences of unfettered markets, which caused what he termed ‘anomie’, how is the state to reconcile morality with the market? Durkheim argues that the answer is to be found in the evolution of a civil religion, in the form of professional codes and civic values, which would counteract the effects of individualism, just as guilds had regulated medieval economic life.

      Arguing that the state has a vital role to play in moral life and that morals are at bottom social facts – a controversial position which drew considerable criticism – Durkheim also argues that the state had a duty to protect the rights of the individual, via a form of cosmopolitan patriotism.

      Durkheim also articulates a highly original and critical interpretation of the rules around property and inheritance – a perspective which resonates with debates about inequality and the redistribution of wealth today.

      Included in this Routledge Classics edition is a new introduction by Bryan S.Turner, placing Durkheim in contemporary context and outlining the key tenets of Professional Ethics and Civic Morals.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter I|14 pages

      Professional Ethics

      chapter II|15 pages

      Professional Ethics (Continued)

      chapter III|15 pages

      Professional Ethics (End)

      chapter IV|14 pages

      Civic Morals

      Definition of the State

      chapter V|11 pages

      Civic Morals (Continued)

      Relation of the State and the Individual

      chapter VI|12 pages

      Civic Morals (Continued)

      The State and the Individual—Patriotism

      chapter VII|10 pages

      Civic Morals (Continued)

      Form of the State—Democracy

      chapter VIII|13 pages

      Civic Morals (Continued)

      Form of the State—Democracy

      chapter IX|12 pages

      Civic Morals (End)

      Form of the State—Democracy

      chapter X|12 pages

      Duties in General, Independent of any Social Grouping—Homicide

      chapter XI|13 pages

      The Rule Prohibiting Attacks on Property

      chapter XII|13 pages

      The Right of Property (continued)

      chapter XIII|15 pages

      The Right of Property (Continued)

      chapter XIV|12 pages

      The Right of Property (Continued)

      chapter XV|14 pages

      The Right of Contract

      chapter XVI|13 pages

      Morals of Contractual Relations (Continued)

      chapter XVII|13 pages

      The Right of Contract (End)

      chapter XVIII|14 pages

      Morals of Contractual Relations (End)

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