 Second, she did indeed think that some classes of action (e.g. murder) were “absolutely excluded” (MTD 71) for what we might call moral reasons. But most of her argumentative writings on such topics were aimed at audiences who already shared her view that one did not need the results of moral philosophy in order to live well. In the preface to a posthumous collection of essays, Luke Gormally explains that the bulk of her addresses in that volume were delivered to Catholic audiences, where she assumed “acceptance of authoritative Church teaching” [FHG, x]. If you and your audience trust that God has promised each of you that it is in your interest to avoid injustice, you don’t need to deeply understand the concept of flourishing or of virtue in order to talk to one another about how to live. Compare: if you trust your travel agent when she says that drinking alcohol on what appears to you to be a stateless island is in fact illegal, then you don’t need to do political philosophy in order to talk with your fellow travelers about whether to leave the alcohol at home.