God, Free Will, and Morality: Prolegomena to a Theory of Practical Reasoning

"He [Francis Bacon] writes of science like a Lord Chan cellor" — William Harvey "Don't say: 'There must be something common . . . ' — but look and see" Ludwig Wittgenstein In the history of western moral philosophy since Plato, there has been a pervasive tendency for the moral theorist to wri~e, in effect, like a scientist, Le. to seek completely general principles of right conduct. Of late, moreover, there has been an attempt to set forth a theory underlying the general principles, not of ...