 If ethics starts with wishes, then the ethical system that emerges will be broadly teleological: the good is prior to the right, as the good is what we wish for. But the good cannot be a one dimensional good, nor can the many dimensions of good be compared with each other, nor is it intelligible to speak of “maximizing the good”. So the system that results is a form of ideal utilitarianism of the sort desiderated by Hastings Rashdall (1907) and described in the last chapter of Moore’s Principia Ethica (1903: ch. 6). It is hostile to rule based ethical systems deriving from the Decalogue or Kant, and hostile to puritanism while suspicious of hedonism. Findlay’s principles of axiology, culled and combined from the works of Brentano, Meinong, Scheler, and Hartmann, as well as Moore, Rashdall, and Ross, include: