ABSTRACT
Right and wrong, like good and bad, have application in both moral and non-moral contexts. It must now be added, what is perhaps already appreciated, that their meaning or logical function is identical whether they are being used as moral or as non-moral terms. In other words, right and wrong should be classified as prescriptive words. Like good and bad, however, right and wrong can often be used conventionally, and when they are so used they have descriptive force. When people are making a specifically moral utterance, or one which they regard as such, they sometimes use right and wrong tout court and sometimes strengthen them with the epithet morally. People are now in a position to deal with some familiar queries raised by moral philosophers. Some mention must now be made of the concept of fittingness since at least one philosopher has endeavoured to turn it into the basic ethical concept.
