Abstract
This chapter discusses that moral inquiry in philosophy often comes in two broad styles. One is humanistic and pragmatic, wherein one would think what is in morality for him, and what version of morality would best serve him. The other broad style is the intuitionist, wherein man would consult his moral intuitions, revise them as needed to achieve consistency, and embrace what emerges. It notes that the hope in consulting and systematizing intuitions is that doing so will uncover a deep, implicit rationale for man's intuitive responses, and that this rationale will turn out to be a worthy one. Utilitarianism sometimes ignores the “separateness of persons.” It explains Harsanyi's two welfare theorems. It explains a way to work out the contractarian ideal, the ideal of living with others on a basis that no one could reasonably reject and evaluate if there is such a thing as a person's good.
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