Morality
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Before getting into the main topic, many of you might ask, "What is morality?" Morality is "concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct and motivation based on ideas of right and wrong" (Wordnet, Princeton University). To define what morality was all about, the three philosophers, Hume, Mill and Kant came up with three different approaches. Hume's theory was based on the idea of Naturalism. Mill's was based on the principles of Utilitarianism. And, Kant's was based on the Laws of Duty.
According to Hume, the facts, the feelings, the judgments of morality can be understood through observations from which we understand from the natural world. To Hume, reasons can not use to produce actions. Yet there is something else that motivates the will to moral action. It is "feelings and passions"...