Morality, Politics and Religion is mainly focused on issues in moral and political philosophy. It has four components. The first part introduces students to the study of meta-ethics. In this, theories such as moral relativism and moral scepticism are evaluated. In the second, you study some central issues in the philosophy of religion: What reasons can be given for believing that God exists? What is religion? Is the existence of a benevolent god consistent with the existence of evil? In the third, we examine what is perhaps the most influential of all philosophical theories of morality, Mill's Utilitarianism. According to it, the moral goodness of an action is to be explained in terms of its effects on human happiness. Can such a theory account for concepts of justice and right? The final sectionis a critical examination of John Locke’s classic theory of how a government gets the right to rule people and when people are entitled to take up arms against their governments.