Morality is a set of shared values among people in a specific society
•why do we have to worry about justifying those values to people who are not members of that society?
•why do we need moral theories?
•what do moral theories have to do with the moral subscripts?
If you write a script for a play, you want both the audience and the cast to understand the message of the play. If you can find a way to help them get that message and believe it, then you have put credibility in the script.
•Moral theories “seek to introduce a degree of rationality and rigor into our moral deliberations” .
•plausible deliberations
•better understand of shared values and the contradictions therein.
*Because many philosophers and others use the words moral and ethical synonymously, we delay the discussion of moral theories until we discuss ethics.