Impartiality MoralityIntroduction:THIS essay presents the key issues surrounding the concepts of partiality and impartiality in ethical theory. In particular, he asserts that the tension between partiality and impartiality has not been resolved. Therefore, he concludes that the requirement for impartiality of moral agents is too demanding. To achieve this goal, this essay consists of four main parts. The first part gives an overview of the notion of impartiality. The second deals with the need for impartiality in consequentialism and deontology. The third deals with the tension between partiality and impartiality (Demandingness Objection). More specifically, how the obligation to perform supererogatory acts arises from impartial morality. The fourth and final part refutes positions according to which partiality and impartiality are reconciled. Therefore, this demonstrates that current ethical theories that require moral agents to behave in a strictly impartial manner are unreasonable. The concept of impartiality: In his best-known work on moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics (350 BCE, p. 1131), Aristotle proposes that to be impartial is to "deal with similar cases of same way.”1 Another commonly accepted definition of impartiality is “being impartial as to one's personal preferences or interests in one's judgments.”2 Indeed, many philosophers accept these definitions as trivially true. However, Bernard Gert suggests that the notion of impartiality is not so simple. In his work Impartiality and Morality (2008, p.4), Gert offers the following definition of impartiality: “A is impartial with regard to R with regard to the group G if and only if the actions of A to with regard to R are not at all influenced by which member(s) of G benefit or harm him... middle of paper ... otherwise it would be obligatory. However, many believe that if a theory contains various footnotes and other caveats, this diminishes its plausibility. Conclusion: To summarize, this essay has shown that the concept of impartiality is a relationship between a moral agent and a particular group. This requires not being influenced by whether group members benefit or harm their actions. Moreover, it also showed that impartiality is a necessary condition for the ethical theories of utilitarianism and deontology. Such theories, however, cannot account for human intuition which suggests that it is acceptable to be biased in certain circumstances. Finally, this essay has shown that the conflict between partiality and impartiality is not resolved. As such, the demand for impartiality in matters of morality demands too much.