Professional Ethics and Civic Morality (The Collected Works of Durkheim. Volume 2)

Author: Emile Durkheim
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: This book is basically composed of three parts: The first three lectures examine the social origins of the public spirit of professional ethics from the perspective of legal evolution, as well as its foundational role in the formation and development of modernity. In the section on "Civic Morality," Durkheim explores the special relationship between political forms and public moral forms from the angle of the relationship between the state and the individual, as well as the historical role played by professional groups in coordinating and constructing this system. Finally, Durkheim's historical study of property rights and contract rights profoundly reveals the sacred origins of these two rights, thereby critiquing the assumptions of natural rights theory and the utilitarian school regarding inherent human rights or the greatest good.