Is There Anything Totally Valuable in the Moral Life?

The questions that the moral life forces on the philosophic thought are abundant. While men within wide limits always agreed as to the ways in which they ought to act as moral personalities, in our times as in former times they have disagreed with reference to the meaning and significance of morality. This paper will detach this one question: “Is there anything totally valuable in our moral life?” from this large background of ethical questions; we shall be able to answer the more directly, the more we focus our attention on this particular question and leave all others untouched. The present paper tends to conclude a positive answer through some considerations concerning moral action and self-valuation.