Moral Expertise

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Moral Expertise

An Ethics Expertise for Clinical Ethics Consultation

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa M. Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Ethics ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Ethics Consultation ◽  
Clinical Ethics Consultation ◽  
Moral Truth ◽  
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Moral Expertise ◽  
In Virtue Of ◽  
Ethics Expertise

A major obstacle to broad support of clinical ethics consultation (CEC) is suspicion regarding the nature of the moral expertise it claims to offer. The suspicion seems to be confirmed when the field fails to make its moral expertise explicit. In this vacuum, critics suggest the following:(1)Clinical ethics consultation's legitimacy depends on its ability to offer an expertise in moral matters.(2)Expertise in moral matters is knowledge of a singular moral truth which applies to everyone.(3)The claim that a clinical ethics consultant can offer knowledge of a singular moral truth in virtue of her professional training is absurd, false, or gravely immoral.Therefore,(4)The field is illegitimate.

Moral Expertise

2017 ◽  
pp. 459-471
Author(s):  
Karen Jones ◽  
François Schroeter
Keyword(s):  
Moral Expertise

Moral expertise

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brad Hooker
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Moral Expertise ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Moral Questions

Moral experts are best defined as those who have studied moral questions carefully, know the main theories developed in response to such questions, and (where possible) know and are able to offer arguments that would convince reasonable people. In scientific and technical areas, one important feature of a successful answer is that it works, in the sense that it makes accurate predictions. We can say that successful answers to moral questions take the form of arguments which, if examined carefully, would persuade reasonable people and lead to convergence in their moral views. The moral responsibility of individuals for themselves does not preclude the role of moral advisor. Many self-pronounced moral experts might be interfering, condescending and hypocritical, but such characteristics need not accompany moral expertise. Probably no one could claim a high degree of expertise in all areas of ethics.

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