Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1979
Abstract
To turn to moral philosophy these days for help in trying to decide "what to do" is a bit like turning to recipe books for help in a famine. One soon discovers that most philosophers avoid ultimate questions about actual choices in actual cases, preferring to concentrate instead on a preliminary problem: how to go about thinking about what to do. One also discovers that philosophers who have written about this preliminary problem of the structure of moral inquiry are neatly divided, as logically they must be, into precisely two camps: those who do and those who do not think that moral inquiry is exclusively a matter of trying to decide what course of action will yield the "best" overall consequences.
Recommended Citation
Soper, E. Philip. "On the Relevance of Philosophy to Law: Reflections on Ackerman's Private Property and the Constitution." Columbia Law Review 79 (1979): 44-65.