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Brand/Publisher: Oxford University Press 1988 trade paperback edition, in gray card covers with large cream \'MORALITY\' title lettering and red subtitle \'A New Justification of the Moral Rules\' across the front panel and spine, with cover design credited to Joy Taylor on the rear panel.
Title and author: Morality: A New Justification of the Moral Rules by philosopher Bernard Gert, presenting a comprehensive account of morality understood as a public system that governs the behavior of all rational persons.
Format and design: Medium-format English-language trade paperback printed on off-white uncoated stock in a clear single-column serif typeface, with running heads, numbered chapters, extensive footnotes keyed to the text, and a concluding index for reference use.
Content and themes: Gert articulates and justifies ten central moral rules within a framework of impartial rationality, examining rational and irrational desires, moral judgments, the nature and content of moral rules and their exceptions, and the relationship between morality, self-interest, and social cooperation.
Structure and organization: The work moves from discussions of rationality and irrationality through chapters on moral rules, impartiality, justification of the moral system, and detailed applications to contested issues such as abortion, euthanasia, medical decision-making, professional responsibility, and public policy.
Edition and revisions: Described on the copyright page as a revised edition of Gert\'s earlier work The Moral Rules, this expanded version incorporates additional material and examples to provide an alternative to dominant twentieth-century moral theories in both analytic philosophy and applied ethics.
Paratext and front matter: Preliminary pages include a title page, copyright and Library of Congress cataloging data, and a printed dedication from Gert to his mother and to the memory of his father, situating the work within both personal and academic contexts.
Provenance and markings: The front free endpaper carries a prior owner\'s name and brief ink notation, while the main text pages present Gert\'s arguments and examples in continuous prose suitable for close study.
Publication details and printing: Copyright page credits Bernard Gert with copyright years 1966, 1967, 1970, 1973, and 1988, notes that earlier versions were issued as The Moral Rules, records publication by Oxford University Press, Inc., 200 Madison Avenue, New York, and states that this paperback was printed in the United States of America.
ISBN and audience: Copyright page and rear cover list ISBN: 0-19-506076-8 for this paperback edition, with an additional ISBN: 0-19-505155-0 also noted; the text is entirely in English and intended for adult readers and students of ethics, moral philosophy, philosophy of medicine, and related disciplines.
