F.E. SPARSHOTT was born in England and education at King's School, Rochester, and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he obtained the B.A. degree with First Class Honours in 1950. Since 1955, he has been teaching in the Philosophy and Classics Departments at Victoria College, University of Toronto, where he is now Professor of Ethics. Professor Sparshott has been Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University (1958-59), a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (1961-62), and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Urbana, (1966). He is author of An Enquiry into Goodness and Related Concepts, The Concept of Criticism, A Divided Voice, and A Cardboard Garage.