The Methods of Ethics

The Methods of Ethics is a book on ethics by thinker Henry Sidgwick. It delivers a methodical account of the basic principles of rational morality.

The student of Ethics seeks to attain systematic and precise general knowledge of what ought to be, and in this sense his aims and methods may properly be termed 'scientific': but I have preferred to call Ethics a study rather than a science, because it is widely thought that a Science must necessarily have some department of actual existence for its subject-matter.