Pater, W. H. as a Moralist

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…that conflict. There is generally too uncritical a reliance upon key terms or categories such as "moral," "moralist," "ethics," and "ethical," and hence a tendency to replicate them without sufficiently questioning their use. One result of this situation is that it has not clearly enough been shown that the ethical crisis of the 1880s was not extrinsic but rather fully intrinsic to the positions adopted by Pater in the writings of the 1860s and 1870s.