ABSTRACT
In the case of natural science the objects of our inquiry are not knowledge; the aim is to produce knowledge. In the case of moral philosophy both its subject matter and the goal of the inquiry are knowledge. In social research in general, the condition of self-referentiality arises almost immediately, imposing limits to our explanatory capacity. The typical case of this chicken-egg relationship is that between human agency and social structures. In the case of morality, almost every step in the explanation depends more or less directly on intuition. The contention then, is that morality is directly connected to the human capacity to make choices. Because moral knowledge is closer to that creative capacity than to the mere replication in epistemological terms of some independent phenomena, axiomatic representation is barren for morality. Morality begins when the line of logical reasoning has been exhausted and the only resource available is the possibility of a choice.
