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Chapter six of the book "The Expectations of Morality" by Gregory F. Mellema is presented. It highlights the aspects of avoiding moral expectations in two ways which include escaping from it and by eliminating or dissolving it. It explores the way people respond to several expectations and their behaviors going beyond the call of duty including acknowledgements by several philosophers and theologians.

Chapter five of the book "The Expectations of Morality" by Gregory F. Mellema is presented. It highlights the aspect of agreement between two people and the role of expectations. It presents the process of agreement comprising of discussions to agreements including proposal of agreement, proposal to dissolve it, refusal to enter into it, refusal to dissolve and termination by a third party.

Chapter four of the book "The Expectations of Morality" by Gregory F. Mellema is presented. It explores the principles of distinction between the ought of moral obligation and a weaker ought. It highlights views of several writers and philosophers including David Little, who argued for the difference between mandatory and permissive ought and Claudia Card, who argued in favor of moral ought.

Chapter three of the book "The Expectations of Morality" by Gregory F. Mellema is presented. It presents a survey about moral expectations conducted on several philosophers. It highlights three common themes from various philosophers which includes reasonable expectations, social expectations shaped by sociological factors and the failure of expectations caused by negative moral status.

Chapter two of the book "The Expectations of Morality" by Gregory F. Mellema is presented. It highlights expectations of certain moral behaviors by several people in our life including parents, grandparents, and siblings in childhood and teachers at school. It presents the two ways of expressing skepticism regarding moral expectations which include are to challenge the idea that they are real and to challenge reliable access to truths about moral expectations.

Chapter Four, Part 4 of the book "Moral Dilemmas," by Daniel Statman, is presented. It explores the moral objections to the right-answer thesis (RAT) in moral dilemmas and the conflicts between moral considerations on the meta-ethical level. It highlights the conditions for the existence of a right answer to moral dilemmas and moral restrictions and the possibility of self-creation, moral pluralism, and moral reasoning.

Chapter Two, Part 5 of the book "Moral Dilemmas," by Daniel Statman, is presented. It explores the neutrality of deontic logic in moral dilemmas and its role in expressing the basic structure of moral discourse without commitment to any substantive ethical theories or views. It highlights the possibility of moral dilemmas based on the considerations expressing substantive moral attitudes at the deontic logic and meta-ethical levels.