A Summary Perspective

Abstract

It may be well to set forth as guide lines a sort of summary perspective of what further ideas the reader may expect to meet in the following pages, not presented in the order in which he will encounter them but more compactly so that the chief features will be prominent. We have already seen in the last chapter that the framework of this entire theory of ethics is to be built around the conception of the moral integrative levels. But further orientations should be helpful, for there are some ideas to be advanced here which could not have been predicted from the naturalism of the moral integrative levels taken just by themselves.