Abstract
A nyone familiar with contemporary literature on philosophical foundations of ethics-say, from John Rawls's Theory of Justice (1972) up to Alan Donagan's Theory of Morality (1977) and Ronald Dworkin's Taking Rights Seriously (1977)-will know how little attention such books give to science, or at least to the natural and social sciences, as they are conceived of at present time in English-speaking world.l The question is, How far does this lack of attention reflect some immutable verities about essential relations between and ethics? And how far is it, rather, a temporary-even, transient-fact about their actual relation in our own day? At other times, certainly, both science and ethics have been conceived of in other ways, and their interactions have been both more obvious and
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