Ethical Inquiry [first edition]

A treatise on general moral philosophy involves a double limitation. On the one hand, it only considers the general outlines of moral reality without describing its content; it limits itself to provide the principles which will later permit that description. On the other hand, as philosophy it does not ground itself directly upon the affirmations of faith, even if in fact faith often directed reason along the path of its certitudes. Limited as it is, the rational exploration of moral reality nonetheless constitutes a major task in the project that would restore today's man his full human dimension.