ABSTRACT
Pages 25-30-The use of examples Although we have extracted the supreme principle of morality from ordinary moral judgements, this does not mean that we have arrived at it by generalising from examples of morally good actions given to us in experience. Such an empirical method would be characteristic of a ‘popular’ philosophy, which depends on examples and illustrations. In actual fact we can never be sure that there are any examples of ‘dutiful’ actions (actions whose determining motive is that of duty). What we are discussing is not what men in fact do, but what they ought to do.
