Gert, Bernard
Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School, USA
Culver, Charles M.
Associate Director of the Physician Assistant Program, Barry University, USA
Clouser, K. Danner
University Professor of Humanities, Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, USA
Print publication date: 2006 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2006
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-515906-6
doi:10.1093/0195159063.003.0002
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2006
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-515906-6
doi:10.1093/0195159063.003.0002
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Morality
This chapter distinguishes between morality, the informal public system that people use when making moral decisions, and a moral theory, which provides an explanation and justification of morality. It presents some examples of mistaken accounts of morality, shows the relation between morality and rationality, and provides an account of impartiality. It gives an account of moral rules and moral ideals, and of the morally relevant features that are used when justifying a violation of a moral rule.
Keywords: moral theory, public system, rationality, irrationality, impartiality, moral rules, moral ideals, morally relevant features
Keywords: moral theory, public system, rationality, irrationality, impartiality, moral rules, moral ideals, morally relevant features
doi:10.1093/0195159063.003.0002
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