The value of principles: the ethics of social work from the perspective of pragmatic contextualism
Abstract
Various theories of ethics have called into question the significance of principles in professional codes, and particularly in social work. Pragmatic contextualism shares this rejection of principlism because it underplays the importance of the agent and their intelligence in the resolution of moral problems. However, at the same time it establishes the bases for a reconstruction of the role of principles in social work, by interpreting the ethics of social work as social and democratic.
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