Collin Henry's Reading Response:"The Role of Moral Theory" pg.14-15 in The Fundamental of Ethics by Russ Shafer Landau

Russ Shafer-Landau emphasizes to readers that the role of moral theory in philosophy is to extract deeper, more generalized theories. Finding these theories would allow us, as humans, to apply them as the moral standard in more cases. Shafer-Landau argues that this is not just a want for philosophers, but is actually a built in yearning for all humans. When faced with a moral dilemma, every person digs deeper into his or her thought process to extract a universal reasoning as to why they came up with their solution. We do not want to think completely through every decision we have to make; instead, we prefer to have a universal code that makes the decision black and white.