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The fellows learned that common misperceptions of the clinical ethicist's role included that of moral expert, judge of right and wrong, legal expert, risk manager, ethics police, ombudsperson, locus of ethics for the institution and final decision-maker [ 19, 20].
The fellows observed that clinical ethicists who modeled humility recognized that their role was neither that of judge nor moral expert, but as a member of the team who was able to engage in a collegial process of deliberation and ethical decision-making.
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Literature helps us, in other words, to be, or to come closer to being, moral "experts".
Well, yes, I grant that in the end the evidence could go in favor of the idea that literature can make moral experts of us.
"Moral Experts" took the view -- considered quite radical at the time -- that moral philosophers ought to get into the nitty gritty of defining right and wrong.
As for what he thinks he's doing: it seems, I explain, to be a mixture of deluded idealism (finding a moral case for war where neither the Anglican bishops nor the Pope - moral experts he might acknowledge - can see one) and deluded pragmatism: he really does believe the military conquest of Iraq will reduce the likelihood of terrorism.
Isaacs invokes Calhoun's distinction between moral knowledge in normal moral contexts as opposed to moral knowledge in abnormal moral contexts, where only those moral "experts" such as feminists, and members of disadvantaged groups who may not be moral "experts" but who have special moral insights due to their experiences, acquire new moral knowledge about which outsiders are unaware.
For example, Andrew Sneddon (2009 argues that disagreements among ordinary people those who are not "moral experts"—are completely irrelevant to metaethics because non-experts lack relevant information (about normative theory and experimental psychology, for example) and we do not know whether these people's disagreements would persist if they were better informed.
While Calhoun argues that the best way for this shift to take place is through reproach, e.g., labeling as sexist people who use the term "girl" instead of "woman" to refer to adult females, Isaacs favors dialogue in which traditional views are challenged by moral "experts," members of disadvantaged groups, and the like.
Self-proclaimed "moral experts" pick up these claims and spread them, and people try to rise up against their folk devils.
And this is why there cannot be moral experts.
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