ABSTRACT
Morality is based on our human nature. The ideal situation, which has this claim on us, is of a certain character because human nature is of a certain character. That is all one can say with any certainty from an examination of the facts of human morality. Men represent a higher stage than animals or inanimate objects. At most, the facts of morality might be one group of facts among many, all of which point to a particular conclusion about the nature of reality: as, for instance, it has been held that an examination of the nature of the judgment leads us to adopt a certain view about the nature of reality and, of course, moral judgments are one class of judgments, among others. The question of freedom in the end comes down to a discussion about the nature of the relation between the state of mind or the character and the action.
