Topic: Compare and contrast the meta-ethical positions: Moral Realism and Moral Relativism. What are the pros and cons of each?

Order Description Required reading: 1. Class Notes 1 2. Bentham, Jeremy (1789), Chapters 1 & 2 of Principles of Morals and Legislation. AVAILABLE ONLINE: https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/authors/bentham.html 3. MacKinnon on Utilitarianism 4. Class Notes 2 5. Mill, John Stuart (1863), Utilitarianism, excerpts from Chapter 2 and Chapter 4. AVAILABLE ONLINE: https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/authors/mill.html READ CHAPTER 2, PAGES 4-8 and ALL OF CHAPTER 4. Notes on resources and supplementary reading: I also recommend, for each topic we cover, looking it up on either, or both, of the following online encyclopedias: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) https://plato.stanford.edu/ and the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) https://www.iep.utm.edu/ Also very useful is the following philosophy website: https://www.philosophypages.com/index.htm - this site has a dictionary, study guides, history, individual philosophers as well as notes on logic and writing philosophy essays (in study guide section).