Introduction

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Setting the stage

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Sayla Benhabib, “Introduction” and “In the Shadow of Aristotle and Hegel” in Situating the Self, Gender, Community, and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics, (Cambridge, Polity Press, 1992): 1-68.

Social roles, Roleconflict, Integrity and Identity

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David Luban, “The Problem of Role Morality” and “The Structure of Role Morality”, in Lawyers and Justice, An ethical Study, (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1988): 104-148.

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Robert Stern, “A Good Doctor but a Bad Person? A Puzzle for Role Ethics from Løngstrup” in The Ethics of Social Roles, Ed. By Alex Barber and Sean Cordell, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023): 87-107.

Social roles, Utilitarianism and Virtue Ethics

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Utilitarianism, Deontology, Virtue Ethics and Ethics of care

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Justin Oakley and Dean Cocking, “The nature of virtue ethics” and “A virtue ethics approach to professional roles”, in Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009): 7-38 and 74-95.

Bernard Williams, “Integrity”, in Utilitarianism, for and against (London: Cambridge University Press, 1975), 108-118 en Bernard Williams, “Theory and Prejudice”, in Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, (London: Routledge Classics, 2011), 103-133.

Social roles, Deontology and Ethics of care

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Christine Korsgaard, “Integrity and Interaction” and “How to be a person”, in Self-constitution, agency, identity, and integrity, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009): 177-215

Christoph Bambauer, “Christine Korsgaard and the Normativity of Practical Identities” in Dimensions of Practical Necessity, Ed.Katharina Bauer, Somogy Varga and Corinna Mieth, (Springer Nature, 2017), 61-86

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Sayla Benhabib, “The Generalized and the Concrete Other,” in Situating the Self, Gender, Community, and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics, (Cambridge, Polity Press, 1992): 148-178.

Young, Iris Marion, 1987. “Impartiality and the Civic Public: Some Implications of Feminist Critiques of Moral and Political Theory,” in Benhabib and Cornell (eds.) 1987: 56–76

Social roles and feminism

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Feminism, the law and social roles

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Kim Lane Scheppele, “The Reasonable Woman”, Philosophy of Law, 7th ed., ed. Joel Feinberg en Jules Coleman, (Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004): 456-460.

Catriona Mackenzie, “Relational Autonomy, Normative Authority and Perfectionism,” in Journal of Social Philosophy, 2008, 39(4): 512-533.