抄録
The moral justification for external whistleblowing has been the subject of significant recent debate. The main arguments on either side have been drawn from either consequentialism or deontology. Recently, some scholars have argued that these arguments miss two points:‘tragicality’and the moral remainder. These scholars intend their critiques to show insufficiencies rather than defects in the consequentialist and deontological accounts. However, these critiques may instead be taken to show that alternative approaches are more suitable for an analysis of external whistleblowing. Drawing on this suggestion, in this paper, I defend a virtue ethics approach to the justifiability of external whistleblowing.
