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  1. E. J. Bond, “Bernard Gert’s Moral System,” Metaphilosophy, vol. 31, 2000, p. 427.

  2. See Michael Costa, review of Gert’s Morality: A New Justification of the Moral Rules, Nous, vol. 26, 1992, p. 400.

  3. See James P. Sterba, “Gert and the Defense of Morality,” David Phillips, “Gert, Sidgwick, and Hybrid Theories of Rationality,” Patrick H. Yarnell, “The Intrinsic Goodness of Pain, Anguish, and the Loss of Pleassure,” Bernard Gert, “Replies to Three Critics,” Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 35, no. 4, 2001; see also Ernst Tugendhat, “Justification in Gert’s Moral Theory,” Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, “On the Relevance of Ignorance to the Demands of Morality,” Bernard Gert, “Reply to Critics,” in Rationality, Rules, and Ideals: Critical Essays on Bernard Gert’s Moral Theory,Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Robert Audi, eds. (Lantham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).

  4. Bernard Gert, “Reply to Critics,” in op. cit., p. 261.

  5. See Bernard Gert, Common Morality: Deciding What to Do (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004) and Bernard Gert, Morality: Its Nature and Justification, rev. ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).

  6. See Gert, Morality: Its Nature and Justification, p. 399, n. 12.

  7. See ibid., pp. 85–86.

  8. Ibid., p. 132.

  9. See ibid., p. 170.

  10. See ibid., pp. 360–361.

  11. Ibid., p. 160.

  12. See ibid., p. 35.

  13. See ibid., p. 37.

  14. See ibid., pp. 172–173.

  15. Ibid., p. 171.

  16. Ibid.

  17. See ibid., pp. 161–162.

  18. Ibid., p. 171.

  19. Gert, Common Morality: Deciding What to Do, p. 86.

  20. Ibid.

  21. Gert, Morality: Its Nature and Justification, p. 171; cf., Gert, Common Morality: Deciding What to Do, pp. 83–84.

  22. See Gert, Morality: Its Nature and Justification, p. 9.

  23. Gert, Common Morality: Deciding What to Do, p. vi.

  24. See Gert, Morality: Its Nature and Justification, p. 186.

  25. Gert, Common Morality: Deciding What to Do, p. 82.

  26. Gert, Morality: Its Nature and Justification, p. 160; see also Gert, Common Morality: Deciding What to Do, p. x.

  27. I would like to thank Bernard Gert for his review of and comments on several previous drafts of this article, and Thomas Magnell, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, for his comments and help.

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Triplett, T. Justifying Morality, Part I: Bernard Gert’s Justification. J Value Inquiry 45, 299–308 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-011-9294-9

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