en arrived at by the exercise of choice and the willingness to accept responsibility for that choice. Those who believe they have no choice will fail to make one and will not exercise their inherent responsibility. The human being over time shifts to an increasingly differentiated, comprehensive, and reflective form of thought about issues of responsibility and choice, and thus Gilligan sees moral choice as a developmental issue leading to a state where choice is exercised and decisions are binding because of the way they have been reached.
4. Normative ethics ask what is right, obligatory, good, or moral. Meta-ethics ask what it means even to say that something is obligatory, good, or right. For some philosophers, moral philosophy is per se meta-ethics, meaning that moral philosophy is not concerned with
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