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Author(s)
Gordon, Randy D.
Rapoport, Nancy B.
Keywords
ethics
philosophy
legal ethics
billing
fees
billing judgement
social science
law firms
Law
Law and Philosophy
Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
Legal Profession
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/619944
Online Access
https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/1041
https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2035&context=facscholar
Abstract
Aristotle tells us, in his Nicomachean Ethics, that we become ethical by building good habits and we become unethical by building bad habits: “excellence of character results from habit, whence it has acquired its name (êthikê) by a slight modification of the word ethos (habit).” Excellence of character comes from following the right habits. Thinking of ethics as habit-forming may sound unusual to the modern mind, but not to Aristotle or the medieval thinkers who grew up in his long shadow. “Habit” in Greek is “ethos,” from which we get our modern word, “ethical.” In Latin, habits are moralis, which gives us the word, “moral.” Aristotle explains that we cannot alter nature by practice: we cannot teach or train a rock to roll up a hill no matter how often we throw it up. But we can alter ourselves by practice. We can train ourselves to be ethical by practice, just as we learn to play the harp by practice.It is a timeless adage that when analyzing the unacceptable behavior of others, one should never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.This essay applies classics ethics analysis and social science principles to ask whether we can find ways to improve billing behavior in law firms.
Date
2015-01-01
Type
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Identifier
oai:scholarship.law.tamu.edu:facscholar-2035
https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/1041
https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2035&context=facscholar
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