ABSTRACT
Ethics, according to these thinkers, must classify values, scale them in order of merit, and finally accord the status of moral values to those found highest. The utilitarian view of duty remains the only serious claimant for the right of entry into the moral domain and the right to bear morality’s name. The utilitarian view alone of all divergent conceptions of the nature of man, can be defined in the moral domain. Synthesis and synoptic views are welcome when one knows what one is combining, what one is seeing together; that is, after analysis. Moreover it seems that certain elements are observed better apart from their natural organic setting. Their intrinsic ‘differentness’ and ‘separateness’ from the complex whole in which they are embedded, and which obscures that ‘distinction’, will then be more clearly recognized and the manner of their functions will be more readily perceived.
