ABSTRACT
The theories of moral philosophy or ethics which have been proposed from the fifth century BC Sophists of Ancient Greece to the present share, with all human thought, reflections and refractions of what has preceded them and of their present. Critical analysis of such theories examines them by applying unavoidably the biases and perspectives of the here and now. Moral philosophy is not fixed nor should it be. No single overarching theory survives universal and indefinite application. Indeed, in endeavouring to identify and stipulate all the ramifications of a single theory, the germ of a common sense notion tends to be lost, to be replaced by elegant argument divorced uneasily from life.
