ABSTRACT
There is no legal norm without an exception is a well-known truth, and one confirmed by universal experience. It may be applied to all the special moral precepts in whose fulfilment the sum of practical morality consists. The attempts at investigation go so far as to disregard the imperative form of moral norms. The virtue-concepts treat the facts of morality from the point of view of motives, while the duty-concepts regard them from the standpoint of ends. The priority of moral norms, is for the most part purely internal. There are just as many fundamental duty-concepts as there are moral norms. Where the notions of duties and virtues are more closely adapted to the special conditions and phenomena of the moral life, their development is of necessity more independent. The method of classifying the moral norms will naturally be in accordance with the various spheres of life to which they relate, that is, will correspond to the various ends involved.
