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See also: [[thoughts/Value|Value]]

> \[!tip\] Justification
>
> Provide criteria for judging actions. It might be that the criterion is simple, such as right actions maximize the good, or it may be complex, such as the right action is the one that gives adequate weight to each competing duty

Most notable are Kant’s [[thoughts/Philosophy and Kant|deontological ethics]], utilitarianism, and virtue ethics.

Considering what is right, which provides the account of wrongness, permissibility.important

One can think moral as the compass encapsulates the “range” of what people ought to or ought not to do, when one’s actions can either cause harm or invoke benefits to other [[thoughts/being]]

## skepticism versus objectivism

\{\{TODO\}\} [_from Jeffrey Kaplan_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bEZM3xyDtc)