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·      Define Moral Obligation

·      Basis for Moral Obligation

·      Extent of moral obligation

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·      Kant and his deontological approach to ethics

·      Plato with his form of “Goodness”

·      Augustine with his morality flowing from God/Christ and moral obligation flowing from love of them.

·      Neitzsche, and the other Existentialist philosophers, with the individual morality

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The number of various philosophies on moral obligation and the scope.

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(1)     There is a fixed moral code and any form of relativism eventually deteriorates into meaningless nihilism

(2)     There is a unifying moral code, and it is knowable

(3)     There is a moral obligation to protect and take care of people and animals both from external harm and from them harming themselves

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Will the grading criteria be posted to give detailed specifics on the requirements?