bernard gert

• 1934–2011 yılları arasında yaşamış amerikan düşünür.
  
  biyomedikal etiğe, analitik felsefenin yöntemlerinin uygulanmasına öncülük edenlerden birisidir.
  
  doğa yasalarına dayanan seküler bir etik kuramını savunmuştur.
  
  " philosophers put forward moral theories in order to provide clear, coherent, and comprehensive descriptions of morality and its justification. no philosopher would accept the view that his theory provides incorrect answers to some moral questions, even if it is granted that it provides correct answers to most others. almost all moral theories, on the standard interpretations, provide correct answers to most noncontroversial moral questions. however, if a moral theory gives an incorrect answer to any noncontroversial moral question, it cannot be trusted to give a correct answer to any controversial moral question. to claim that a moral theory gives an incorrect answer to any moral problem is to reject that theory or, at least, to require that it be revised. "
  
  " natural-law theorists incorporate the feature that morality must be known to all normal adult human beings. ı incorporate all of these features of common morality in my theory, so it is not surprising that it resembles all of these other standard moral theories in some respects. however, my account of morality and its justification contains features that are not found together in any of the traditional theories, so the reader should be wary of classifying it as a version of any of the traditional moral theories. "
  
  bernard gert, common morality, oxford university press, 2007