A Classification of the General Approaches and Theories about Morality

Evidently morality plays a very important role in all the aspects of human existence from the most superficial dimensions to the deepest aspects of life. Scientific efforts in this field have led to the development of a wide range of approaches and theories about morality. But due to their dispersion and vagueness, there is an urgent need organizing and classifying them. No doubt the classification of approaches and theories about morality has resulted in scientific order, created a system of moral knowledge and removed disunity and dispersion. This paper aims to classify the different approaches and theories about morality. In the first section, the general approaches and theories about morality are classified in terms of source and documentation and in the second section, in terms of end and result.