It looks at controversial topics like war, animal rights and capital punishment

It is concerned with the content of moral judgements and the criteria for what is right or wrong.

It teaches that moral judgments are nothing more than statements of a person's feelings or attitudes, and that ethical statements do not contain factual truths about goodness or badness.

It is based on the idea that there are real objective moral facts or truths in the universe.

It is the view that moral claims are no more than expressions of approval or disapproval.

It is the view that thinks that ethical statements are instructions or recommendations.

It makes ethics inseparable from religion. It teaches that the only source of moral rules is God.

It teaches that some acts are right or wrong in themselves, whatever the consequences, and people should act accordingly.

It teaches that people should do whatever produces the greatest amount of good consequences.