Evaluate THREE approaches to the study of ethics. Which is most appropriate and why? Ethics is the study of “the moral principles that govern a person’s behavior in the conduct of an activity.” In this essay, I will study three moral principles, morality as law, inner conviction, and personal growth, from Donal Harrington's "What is Morality" (1996), and examine the effectiveness of each approach to 'ethics. Additionally, I will evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the three moral principles to reach a conclusion on which approach is most suitable for contemporary society. Each approach to ethics offers a valid insight, but morality as personal growth can be seen as offering a long-term solution to corrupt morality, but I will argue that this approach would struggle to gain traction without other approaches to ethics do not support it. The essay will examine Harrington's idea of ​​"morality as law." Human beings are raised in a world of inflicted principles that determine the distinction between good and evil: this is called law. From a young age, our parents act as an authority figure to guide us to act according to the law because that is what is considered acceptable in a given society. Taking this into account, Harrington believes that the law is a reflection of our morality, as we are nurtured until it becomes part of our nature to obey the law in order to show that we have good morals. This is reinforced in the Journal of Moral Education (Murray 2012), which suggests that nature and nurture must be linked for individuals to develop morally in society. Education is explained in terms of submission to the law given during childhood, which results in the actualization of your individual nature, which is shown... middle of document ...... could provide a long-term solution to corrupt morality in a given society because it shows that individual beings make a habit of doing what is virtuous, which could potentially lead to a civilization of moral goodness. If virtue ethics is taken into account when evaluating this idea, it might be plausible to conclude that people with underdeveloped morality would aspire to be in a state of flourishing moral growth because it s This is an admirable trait (Hooft 2005); so this is something to look for. In addition to this, Aquinas believes that once an individual is in a state of grace, it becomes difficult to commit sin because "his whole inclination goes against him" (Harrington). Therefore, morality as personal growth posits the idea that the world could potentially be of pure goodness, but it cannot succeed as an approach to ethics alone..