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This essay is a critical study of Bernard Gert’s theory of morality. The thrust of the criticism of Gert’s theory is that it represents an impoverished conception of morality because it takes morality as exclusively a system of precepts for regulating behavior and ignores morality’s concern with our inner life. The criticism focuses on Gert’s denial that morality includes a duty of benevolence and offers arguments to show that his reasons for this denial are faulty. The second part of the essay offers as an alternative to Gert’s account of moral ideals as precepts. On the alternative account the essay offers, moral ideals are understood as exemplars or models of human excellence that give meaning to one’s moral behavior.
Title: Moral Ideals
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This essay is a critical study of Bernard Gert’s theory of morality.
The thrust of the criticism of Gert’s theory is that it represents an impoverished conception of morality because it takes morality as exclusively a system of precepts for regulating behavior and ignores morality’s concern with our inner life.
The criticism focuses on Gert’s denial that morality includes a duty of benevolence and offers arguments to show that his reasons for this denial are faulty.
The second part of the essay offers as an alternative to Gert’s account of moral ideals as precepts.
On the alternative account the essay offers, moral ideals are understood as exemplars or models of human excellence that give meaning to one’s moral behavior.
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