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Learning Objectives

» Understand what a moral theory is and its importance in ethics.

» Understand the relationships among moral theories, principles, and judgments and the role that all these play in moral argument.

» Know how the major moral theories define right action and how they differ in their approach to the moral life.

» Understand the basic claim of the divine command theory and why both the religious and nonreligious have criticized it.

» Know the moral criteria of adequacy and how to use them to assess the worth of moral theories.