What Is Morality? What Gives Its Principles and Rules Authority

question 25

Essay

What is morality? What gives its principles and rules authority in our lives? Write an essay in which you discuss the chief features of morality, and then use those features to compare and contrast two of the four major approaches to the justification of moral principles and rules: Kant's duty-defined morality, Bentham's or Mill's utilitarianism, Aristotle's virtue ethics, and feminist philosophers' care ethics. Which of these theoretical approaches do you favor and why?

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