Describe the Social Contract Theory of Morality

Please select a question from the list below, and make sure to clearly state the question you are
answering at the start of your essay.
Questions:
1. Does one need to appeal to God and religion in order to make sense of an objective morality?
2. What is the Euthyphro dilemma, and what problem does it pose for divine command ethical theory?
3. Describe, and critically evaluate, at least one version of the social contract theory of morality.
4. What is the prisoners’ dilemma, and what, if anything, does it tell us about the relationship between
pursuing our own self-interest and engaging in social cooperation?
5. What is moral expressivism, and how does it differ from a moral error theory? In what sense are these
views forms of moral anti-realism?
6. What is moral relativism, and what kinds of considerations motivate such a view? Are any of these
considerations persuasive?

Answer preview:

word limit:1127