ABSTRACT
In an article entitled ‘Akrasia and Criteria of Assent to Practical Principles’, Professor C. K. Grant challenges the former view and maintains that ‘it simply cannot be assumed without argument that nothing can be rationally regarded as more important than morally righteous conduct’. Our ‘test’ problem, then, is whether we can properly call a monolithic theory a ‘morality’. Someone might at the very start object even to our problem. In the first place, there is plainly a sense in which morality is a department of life. The second sense of the word ‘morality’ is that in which it is used when we talk, for example, of ‘Gide’s own morality’. Further, there are religious thinkers who hold that religious considerations are more important than any others. Morality in the autonomous sense is not one competing interest or aspect of life amongst many others.
