1. Ruth Benedict argues that cultural morals are based in the concept of what is “normal” for that culture.

2. A more “moderate” version of Peter Singer’s argument in “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” that he defends is that a person is morally obligated to give up something of moral significance to help those less fortunate.

3. The parable of the Ring of Gyges is used By Socrates to show that justice exists only because the alternative to justice is worse.

4. Mill answers the charge that utilitarianism is more than “pig philosophy” by arguing that utilitarianism believes right and wrong are not merely based on pleasure or happiness.

5. Pojman’s argument for moral objectivism rides on the assumption that human beings share a common nature (when it comes down to it, humans have the same general interests, needs, wants, etc.).

6. One of the types of moral luck that Nagel lists as counterexamples to Kantian ethics is Circumstantial Luck, where the type of personality or nature that the person has (something arbitrary) plays a role in the ethical decision made.

7. Kant argues that what is moral is based on the moral agent’s intention to cause the least harm.

8. Taylor argues, in the absence of natural justice, moral agents decide what is right based on what their own desires and feelings toward goals that they want.

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and yes I know the wording is tricky