ABSTRACT
To speak of a ‘systematic search for the principles of wise choice’ sounds very appealing, but, according to the critics, this is just an illicit combination of two incompatible things, a theoretical system or science, and a set of principles to live by, which cannot be a science. Philosophy is the discussion of theoretical problems which cannot have theoretical answers; that is to say, they cannot have answers in terms of the theory in which they arise, but only in terms of another theory, namely philosophy. A more positive way of putting a negative point is to use the phrase 'conceptual analysis': if philosophy is thinking about thinking, it will be examining, criticising, analysing concepts rather than things. However, before closing this chapter, the author displays a final example which links together both of the last two topics: the question of objectivity, which was a B-type question, and one of the C-type questions, namely the question of obscenity.
