St. Thomas Law Review
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9
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Readers of legal ethics literature frequently encounter the following question: "Can a good lawyer be a good person?" This Article addresses a variation of that question: "Can a good lawyer be a good person if that person is not a good philosopher?" This new question confronts a perplexing realization about most moral exploration of lawyering-that it takes place amidst a language and an intellectual world with which most practicing lawyers are not familiar or conversant. Of course, the philosophers inhabiting that world and using that language aim to affect the lives of working attorneys in some concrete way,but reading the philosophers does not self-evidently show how their world connects to the world of practice. This article expresses that connection.
Recommended Citation
Paul R. Tremblay,
Practiced Moral Activism,
8
St. Thomas L. Rev.
9
(1995).
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https://scholarship.stu.edu/stlr/vol8/iss1/4