Bernard Gert

Bernard Gert ( born October 16, 1934 in Cincinnati, † 24 December 2011) was an American moral philosopher.

Gert studied philosophy and a doctorate on moral philosophy and political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. Since 1959 Gert taught philosophy at Dartmouth College and was since 1976 also in the medical faculty as an adjunct professor working for psychiatry. In 1970 he published the first version of his moral theory entitled The Moral Rules. Revised versions of his theory, he published in 1988 as Morality. A New Justification of the Moral Rules and 1998 and 2005 as a Morality. Its Nature and Justification.

Ethics

Bernard Gert is based on a moral system designated as a common morality that people often unconsciously use when they make moral decisions or make judgments that affect morale. He sees no compelling reason to replace it by a better moral system. The essence of morality consists, according to Bernard Gert ten moral rules together:

Works

• The moral rules. Frankfurt am Main. Suhrkamp, 1983 (English: The Moral Rules: A New Rational Foundation for Morality New York, 1966. )
• Morality: A New Justification of the Moral Rules, Oxford University Press, 1988.
• Morality: Its Nature and Justification, Oxford University Press, 1998 Revised Edition, Oxford University Press, 2005..
• Common Morality: Deciding What to Do, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Bioethics: A Systematic Approach, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 2006
• Hobbes: Prince of Peace, Polity Press, 2010.