ABSTRACT
Professional ethics are to become established in the economic order, then the professional group, hardly to be found in this sphere of social life, must be formed or revived. The name in history of this professional group is the guild and this guild is held to have been bound up with our political ancien regime and therefore as not being able to survive it. "The craft guilds of the Romans", Waltzing says, "were a long way from having so definite a professional character as those of the Middle Ages; with them we find neither regulation of methods, nor the prescribing of apprenticeship nor exclusive rights; nor was it their aim to collect the necessary funds for developing an industry." The facts related show clearly that the professional group is by no means incapable of being in itself a moral sphere, since this was its character in the past.
