Through a means of storytelling about one of the most famous ethical situations in history that the famous philosopher, known as Socrates, had to face, Frankena elucidates the true meaning of moral philosophy and distinguishes three components that relate to morality in one shape or another. He states that understanding these concepts can make you look outside your inner-directed internalized rules that were set upon us at some point in our lives, and actually think freely to solve moral dilemmas we face in our every day lives. The three components that you can examine moral philosophy with are descriptive empirical inquiries, normative thinking, and "meta-ethical" thinking. Empirical inquiries is an attempt to explain the question morality
