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Introduction

Common Morality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2013

Extract

This CQ department is dedicated to bringing noted bioethicists together in order to debate some of the most perplexing contemporary bioethics issues. Readers are invited to contact editors D. Micah Hester at hesterm@uams.ed or Alissa H. Swota at aswota@unf.edu with their thoughts on this debate or with suggestions for debate topics and interlocutors.

Type
The Great Debates
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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References

Notes

1. Gert, B. Morality: A New Justification of the Moral Rules. New York: Oxford University Press; 1988, p. 5.Google Scholar

2. Gert, B. Common Morality: Deciding What to Do. New York: Oxford University Press; 2004, at v; see also p. 6.Google Scholar

3. Gert’s own account is that his early works, The Moral Rules (1970) and Morality (1988 and 1998) all contain the philosophical justification for his “common morality” theory that he expresses most explicitly in Common Morality (2004).Google Scholar

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5. Beauchamp, TL, Childress, JF. The Principles of Biomedical Ethics. 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press; 1994, at 6.Google Scholar

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7. Beauchamp, TL, Childress, JF. The Principles of Biomedical Ethics. 6th ed. New York: Oxford University Press; 2009, at 3, emphasis added.Google Scholar