ABSTRACT
Moral problems are embedded in sentences which have an interrogative form, whether such sentences are spoken out loud or said to oneself. The moral philosopher discovers the logical significance of the concepts used and how sentences, embodying moral problems, are related to or differ from sentences embodying non-moral problems. Now although people make statements involving moral issues which do not constitute moral problems for them but only problems in morals for philosophers. These problems in morals throw considerable light on the interrogatively expressed moral problems which generate mental conflict or puzzlement. The philosopher's task is to investigate problems in morals and see that their range is extensive and their solution complicated. They also see, and this perhaps is one of the most characteristic features of modern ethical analysis, that in order to understand how certain concepts function in moral discourse it is necessary, as a preliminary move, to investigate the logical behaviour of these same concepts in non-moral discourse.
