Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality by David Wiggins (Harvard University Press, 2006).

Abstract

everything into the language of planning, execution, and command. Better counsel, counsel too rarely heeded but familiar from the writings of Bernard Williams, will be to study our moral ideas for themselves and for all they are worth, avoiding every preconception of what they ‘must’ be like...Let us leave the expression ‘moral theory’ in the hands of those who relish its present connotation of reconstruction or believe that it is the business ofmoral philosophy to trespass on the preserve of themoralist by remaking firstordermorality...At the outset, let us bracket all preconceptions and allow the notions we already have to speak to us for themselves. (Wiggins, 2006, pp. 4–7)