Notes to Moral Theory

1. There is a more refined use of “Common-sense Ethics” associated with Thomas Reid who was responding the what he viewed as the moral skepticism espoused by David Hume.

2. See Sidgwick 1874 [1907] and Schneewind 1963.

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