At the close of the previous chapter we began to examine the intimate relation between what Baier called “positive morality” and “true morality.” If we are going to understand what an adequate normatively justified social morality would be, we need to understand our current moral practices and the core claims implicit in them. Once moral theory abandons the aspiration to construct social morality from the ground up (or, as it were, to discover it for the first time), we must understand the fundamental features of our moral practices, and then we can seek to evaluate them from an impartial view – a moral point of view of free and equal persons. This chapter focuses on a fundamental feature of our social morality: the way it integrates the emotions and reason in our moral relations with others.