Learning Moral Commitment at University in a Plural Society

A further distinction is important: between-on the one hand-adherence to a particular moral value because authority or convention says so, and —on the other-adherence to that value because it is seen as ‘right’ or ‘good’ in itself, and

the ‘oughtness’ derives from the ‘rightness’ of the action. It is in this sense that Aristotle argues: the individual ‘chooses the action for its own sake’ (1955).