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Bernard Gert

Publications and source records attributed to Bernard Gert.

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PubMed2006

Making the morally relevant features explicit: a response to Carson Strong.

Carson Strong criticizes the application of my moral theory to bioethics cases. Some of his criticisms are due to my failure to make explicit that both the irrationality or rationality of a decision and the irrationality or rationality of the ranking of evils are part of morally relevant feature 3. Other criticisms are the result of his not using the two-step procedure in a sufficiently rigorous way. His claim that I come up with a wrong answer depends upon his incorrectly regarding a weakly justified violation as one that all impartial rational persons would agree was permitted, rather than as one about which rational persons disagree.

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PubMed2006

A brief reply to Carson Strong.

Carson Strong's reply to my response to his article demonstrates what happens when there is unacknowledged disagreement about the facts of a case or about the meaning of the terms used to describe those facts. I hope that our dialogue will help reduce this disagreement.

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PubMed2002

The relevance of moral theory to pediatric neurology.

Although you should never abandon your well-considered moral judgments because of their conflict with a moral theory, you should also usually not hold that your well-considered moral judgments are the only correct moral judgments. Common morality does not provide unique correct answers to every moral question, it only sets limits to the range of morally acceptable answers. In serious discussions of controversial cases or policies, almost all of the answers will be morally acceptable. The recognition that there are sometimes several conflicting morally acceptable answers allows for a friendly and fruitful discussion with no one sacrificing their moral integrity.

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