Why Is It Morally Obligated To Hold True Belief?
In this paper, I will reveal how you can make yourself believe; along with this, I plan to illustrate the inherent dangers that lurk in building belief systems on an illegitimate foundation and why you are morally obligated to hold true belief systems.
What is a belief? It is a thought(s) that is truth to the mind. Beliefs may not always be true or legitimate, but the fact that the mind believes them forges them in to concrete building blocks. This creates a foundation on which actions come to fruition and morals come in to play. Once beliefs are held, they can be very difficult to break. However, believing something is a lot easier than unbelieving. I will show this throughout the course of this paper.
It is important to note that before …show more content…
What I mean by this is if you were to hold a false belief, there would be bad consequences and the eventual weakening of your critical powers to be able to assess unjustified belief systems. As you begin to accumulate false beliefs you become credulous, the danger in becoming credulous is that it weakens you ability to reason and may eventually lead towards the path of disaster for yourself and others who may share your beliefs or be affected by them. In the following example, it will become evident that there lies a moral obligation to the truth. Without it, a person creates the foundation for undesirable …show more content…
Assume you got away with it tonight. As you set out another night, you look back at past occurrences when you have gotten away with it and simply put your “faith in to providence”. This self-perpetuating cycle will eventually become your unmaking. For arguments, sake let us say everyone was to assume your role catastrophe would ensue.
This is the hidden danger in holding unjustified beliefs, as you continue along this path you are detracting from the social fabric of society. No matter how many times you have gotten away with putting your life and the lives of others in the hands of faith you are morally accountable, the question of right and wrong has to do with the origin of the belief whether you had a right to believe on such evidence as was before you. The duty applies to belief itself.
In the previous example, the belief in the ability to drive drunk has put the driver’s life in danger and that of anyone else on the road. William Clifford’s allegory of the ship owner arrives at the same moral of the drunk driver
What is a belief? It is a thought(s) that is truth to the mind. Beliefs may not always be true or legitimate, but the fact that the mind believes them forges them in to concrete building blocks. This creates a foundation on which actions come to fruition and morals come in to play. Once beliefs are held, they can be very difficult to break. However, believing something is a lot easier than unbelieving. I will show this throughout the course of this paper.
It is important to note that before …show more content…
What I mean by this is if you were to hold a false belief, there would be bad consequences and the eventual weakening of your critical powers to be able to assess unjustified belief systems. As you begin to accumulate false beliefs you become credulous, the danger in becoming credulous is that it weakens you ability to reason and may eventually lead towards the path of disaster for yourself and others who may share your beliefs or be affected by them. In the following example, it will become evident that there lies a moral obligation to the truth. Without it, a person creates the foundation for undesirable …show more content…
Assume you got away with it tonight. As you set out another night, you look back at past occurrences when you have gotten away with it and simply put your “faith in to providence”. This self-perpetuating cycle will eventually become your unmaking. For arguments, sake let us say everyone was to assume your role catastrophe would ensue.
This is the hidden danger in holding unjustified beliefs, as you continue along this path you are detracting from the social fabric of society. No matter how many times you have gotten away with putting your life and the lives of others in the hands of faith you are morally accountable, the question of right and wrong has to do with the origin of the belief whether you had a right to believe on such evidence as was before you. The duty applies to belief itself.
In the previous example, the belief in the ability to drive drunk has put the driver’s life in danger and that of anyone else on the road. William Clifford’s allegory of the ship owner arrives at the same moral of the drunk driver