Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2020
1 See Moore, G.E. Principia Ethica (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1903Google Scholar), Ch. 5.
2 Nowell-Smith, P. Ethics (NY: Penguin Books 1954), 41Google Scholar
3 My own view about abortion is worked out more thoroughly in ‘A Contractarian Defense of the Liberal View of Abortion and the wrongness of Infanticide,’ forthcoming in Bowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy, 1986.
5 I am grateful to David Copp for several helpful suggestions and queries about the first draft of this essay.