ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the relation between Morality and Practice. According to some people, including some writers on Ethics such as Kant, the fundamental problem of Morality could be condensed in the succinct query by Man. The Aristotelian equivocation, as it might be called, does not of course altogether dominate and falsify Aristotle’s ethical thought; nor did it begin with Aristotle or survive through the mere accident of Aristotle’s authority. To blur the distinction between ‘the good’ pursued and the moral goodness of conduct is as much an ineradicable tendency in man’s mind as to make that distinction expresses an ineluctable finding of his consciousness. It is well to think of ‘goods’ and meanings of ‘good’ in the neighbourhood thereof in order to appreciate the distance that separates the agent’s good from his goodness or that of his conduct: to illustrate the ambiguity of Good.
