 While metaethics addresses second-order questions about morality, normative ethics addresses first-order ethical questions about what to do and how to be and divides into applied ethics and ethical (or moral) theory. The former, also referred to as “practical ethics”, addresses questions about specific ethical issues (e.g., abortion, capital punishment) and ethical issues that arise in the professions (e.g., medical ethics, business ethics). Normative ethical theory (ethical theory henceforth), by contrast, addresses general questions about which types of actions are morally right or wrong and what kind of person is morally good and why. In this section, we focus primarily on the bearing of moral phenomenology on ethical theory, in particular theories of right conduct (obligation), organized around three “formal” issues: (1) deontology vs. consequentialism about the structure of ethical theory, (2) monism vs. pluralism about the number of fundamental morally relevant factors that determine, e.g., whether an action is right or wrong (an action’s deontic status), and (3) atomism vs. holism about the significance of morally relevant descriptive features in explaining the instantiation of normative or evaluative properties. We take these up in order, after which we conclude with some remarks about other normative ethical issues that have received attention from moral phenomenologists.