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The field of machine ethics in the process of designing and developing the computational underpinnings necessary for a robot to make ethical decisions in real-world environments. Yet a key issue faced by machine ethics researchers is the apparent lack of consensus as to the existence and nature of a correct moral theory. Our research seeks to grapple with, and perhaps sidestep, this age-old and ongoing philosophical problem by creating a robot architecture that does not strictly rely on one particular ethical theory. Rather, it would be informed by the insights gleaned from multiple ethical frameworks, perhaps including Kantianism, Utilitarianism, and Ross’s duty based ethical theory, and by moral emotions. Arguably, moral emotions are an integral part of a human’s ethical decision-making process and thus need to be accounted for if robots are to make decisions that roughly approximate how humans navigate through ethically complex circumstances. The aim of this presentation is to discuss the philosophical aspects of our approach.