Abstract
Abstract 3.1 The concept of health is one the understanding of which would help with both theoretical problems in philosophy and practical problems in medicine. The theoretical problems arise because philosophers, at least since Plato and Aristotle, have used what may be called the medical analogy when discussing morality; they have claimed that expressions such as ‘good man’ behave in some ways like the expression ‘healthy man’, and that if we have no difficulty in applying the latter, we should have no more difficulty in applying the former. Thus advocates of descriptivist ethical theories often claim that since ‘healthy’ is a descriptive concept, so may ‘good’ be. The obvious reply, for those who reject descriptivism, is to ask whether ‘healthy’ is purely descriptive either; and that is what I shall be doing in this paper.
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