caa a22 4500 606170804 CHVBK 20210128100719.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10728-013-0239-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10728-013-0239-2 Oswald Malcolm Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, M13 9PL, Manchester, UK aut How Can One be Both a Philosophical Ethicist and a Democrat? [Elektronische Daten] [Malcolm Oswald] How can one be both a philosophical ethicist and a democrat? In this article I conclude that it can be difficult to reconcile the two roles. One involves understanding, and reconciling, the conflicting views of citizens, and the other requires the pursuit of truth through reason. Nevertheless, an important function of philosophy and ethics is to inform and improve policy. If done effectively, we could expect better, and more just, laws and policies, thereby benefiting many lives. So applying philosophical thinking to policy is an important job. However, it comes with substantial difficulties, not least in reconciling, or choosing between, competing philosophical theories. Despite the importance of the task, and the apparent obstacles, there is relatively little literature on how to apply ethics to real-world policy-making. Democracies need ethicists who can engage in democratic debate and bridge the gap between philosophy and public policy. I offer some tactics here. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2013 Applied ethics nationallicence Bioethics nationallicence Democracy nationallicence Democrat nationallicence Ethics nationallicence Philosophy nationallicence Philosophical truth nationallicence Policy nationallicence Policymaking nationallicence Reason nationallicence Health Care Analysis Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 23/1(2015-03-01), 63-72 1065-3058 23:1<63 2015 23 10728 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-013-0239-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-013-0239-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Oswald Malcolm Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, M13 9PL, Manchester, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Health Care Analysis Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 23/1(2015-03-01), 63-72 1065-3058 23:1<63 2015 23 10728