There are many ways of writing about the moral life; Moral
Obligations follows the way of what philosophers call
""meta-ethics"" the analysis, not of particular moral problems, but
of how the concepts used in formulating and solving them, concepts
like ""right"" and ""obligatory,"" have significance and power over
us. The meta-ethical part of this book is preceded by a discussion
of action, in which Wren lays the foundations for the argument that
moral obligation is a part of the formal structure of human
agency.
Wren's argument is practical and social-psychological: it is to
help all, starting with those who are already committed to some
version of the ethic of individual dignity, to promote interagency
fellowship and peace as a result of seeing a certain truth, namely,
the truth that the urgency of their feelings of moral obligation
derives from a unspoken intention to belong to a community of
agents.
Moral Obligations begins with the philosophy of action, and then
it reviews the historical debate about the nature of obligation and
its social context. This is followed by a section about action in
general: it establishes the standpoint of the agent and makes an
inventory of several species of action. Later chapters summarize
the foregoing themes, with emphasis on the unspoken side of
intention, and develop them in conjunction with an analysis of the
hypothetical imperative. The work closes with a discussion of the
dilemma of membership in competing moral communities.
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