Moral Integrity

Abstract

In his essay “Moral integrity”, Peter Winch criticises the conception of morality as a guide to action. What such a conception overlooks is the understanding of something as a moral problem, what it is that calls one to do something in the first place. In this paper, I discuss these issues in dialogue with Winch’s essay, as I believe there are fruitful aspects of this essay that have not yet been sufficiently explored. These aspects concern how the above-mentioned understanding is to be described, above all that the substance and point of moral understanding must be searched for in the context of my relations to others. By a discussion of what this means, it is also possible to answer some of the problems Winch runs into during the course of his discussion.