Groenewald, Liezl Marie2011-06-222011-06-222011-06-22http://hdl.handle.net/10539/10156This paper presents the thesis that concerns about organisational and professional codes of ethics are mostly legitimate. However, it will be shown that these objections are in fact objections to contingent features of codes as they are ordinarily formulated. It is possible to devise codes of ethics that are not susceptible to these concerns, specifically, codes formulated in terms of the virtue concepts and without absolute deontological prohibitions. Moreover, it will be demonstrated that the codes formulated in this way may be morally justified in terms of their capacity to bring about moral and professional development.enThesis