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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