The Moral Patient
- 1 April 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy
- Vol. 59 (228) , 171-183
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s003181910006767x
Abstract
The attitude of the impartial spectator has seemed to some to be the appropriate one for a moral philosopher: the philosopher should disengage himself from the moral battle and try to understand it; the academic moral philosopher's responsibility is to write about morality rather than to recommend moral positions—and, indeed, where an ideological standpoint is presupposed in academic moral philosophy, it is commonly not consciously presupposed.Keywords
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