ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes to consider the doctrine of moral philosophy a little more fully and it is in this connection that Josiah Royce is of special relevance. It says that the task of moral philosophy is to work out a theory of what moral conduct is. Moreover, while Royce thinks that moral philosophy when fully developed must pass into metaphysics, he agrees that a distinction may be drawn between them and that it is possible to go a good way in moral philosophy without embarking on metaphysics. The chapter outlines that Metaphysics is intended to be the further development and culmination of the moral philosophy but it is possible to consider the argument on its own merits. It may be of interest to examine a later statement of Royce's moral philosophy. There are no good reasons for accepting the theory of metaphysics and that the theory of morality really implies a position along the lines of Humanistic Idealism.
