ABSTRACT
Obligation, I have proposed, is neither the voice of God, nor the voice of society, nor the voice of a person’s basic needs and abilities as re-formed in his personality. ‘Oughting’ is that imperative to the best which a person experiences at choice point, once he reflects on the alternatives he believes are open to him. The experience of obligation is neither a cognition of some irreducible value-data, or prima facie, or a priori obligations; nor is it an emotive response symptomatic of the person’s affective-conative preferences.
