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-Absolutism-
*Egoism
*Deontology
*Utilitarianism
*virtue ethics
*Divine command theory

-Relativism-

*cultural (relativism)
*Subjective (individual relativism)

-Psychological Egoism-

*Descriptive theory of human nature
*what we are like

-Ethical Egoism-
*Prescriptive of normative theory about morality
*what we ought to be like

-Emotivism-

*what do moral statements refer too? Nothing!
*Any statement which can't be verified empirically or scientifically has no true value or factual content.

-Calvinism- "total depravity of human beings"

*good things are a result of god because humans are essentially evil.
*A psychological egoist but not an ethical egoist

Every act is motivated by desire fulfilling desires is selfish=every act is selfish