Abstract
This essay is concerned with the interrelationship between abstract moral principles, moral rules, and the description and evaluation of concrete situations, especially in the light of the open textured character of moral and other language. I draw four conclusions from my examination of the structure of moral reasoning. (1) Moral requirements are embedded in ways of life, to sustain which is part of their purpose. (2) Moral codes are constantly being tested by their being applied to concrete situations. (3) There is both a powerful case for, and a powerful case against, treating some moral rules as exceptionless and immune to revision. And (4) moral reasoning is dependent for its vitality on the continued existence of conditions outside the power of moralists to preserve.
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