ABSTRACT

Ethics is the genus of which morality is a species. Thus Ronald Dworkin writes that "ethics includes convictions about which kinds of lives are good or bad for a person to lead, and morality includes principles about how a person should treat other people". Wilfrid Sellars famously defined philosophy as "the study of how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term". Just as metaethics deals with philosophical questions about ethics, which are mostly about normativity in general, so also is metamorals concerned with philosophical issues about morality. Metamorals will thus be concerned with philosophical issues that arise with respect to this distinctive normative conception and its putative object, moral right and wrong. The distinctiveness of morality and moral concepts within ethics more generally bears careful attention at the level of metaethics and metamorals.