它对于伦理的检视不是从预想的理论出发，而是调查实际道德主体（moral agent）所做出、并且被观察到的真实抉择，促成了这决择的所有道德因素，它研讨社会族群所持有的伦理观）。
Its examination on ethics does not originate from the expected theory, but it investigates the real choices made and observed by the actual moral agent, all the moral factors leading to this decision; it studies the ethics held by social groups).