Neutral and Relative Value after Moore *

The analysis proposes a reduction of one moral concept (the concept of what we ought to do) to another pair of moral concepts (the concepts of goodness and badness). In order to fully understand the concept of what we ought to do, we must therefore combine the proposed analysis with an account of the nature of goodness and badness. Moore combines the analysis with his distinctive view of goodness and badness as simple, nonnatural properties. However, as we shall see, if the analysis is combined with this Moorean account of goodness and badness, then various ethical doctrines that mightn’t have looked to be incoherent on the face of it turn