concept of morality can and does exist within cultures that have only one god‚ as well as cultures that have multiple gods. Without morality‚ the world would be a place of extreme chaos and pandemonium. However‚ the foundation for morality within polytheistic religions is quite contradictory to the foundation for morality with monotheistic religions. Morality within polytheism is somewhat inconsistent and relative; whereas in monotheism‚ morality becomes more consistent and absolute. Morality exists
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What is the relationship between morality and religion? There are three broad views that morality: depends on religion‚ is independent of religion and is opposed to religion. The view that morality depends on religion maintains that without religion‚ there would be no morality because moral codes come from religion and moral opinions are judged by religious teaching i.e. God. Moral behavior is judged to be right or wrong depending on whether it follows or opposes the teaching of God or religious
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part does self-interest or the interests of others play in the making of moral decisions or judgments? • What theories of conduct are valid or invalid‚ and why? • Should we use principles‚ rules‚ or laws‚ or should we let each situation decide our morality? • Are killing‚ lying‚ cheating‚ stealing and sexual acts right or wrong‚ and why or why not? ETHICS - DEFINITION • Ethics are a set of principles of right conduct that govern an individual or group. • Put into practice‚ ethics are the rules you
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ethics it will help us to know the right and wrong action and in the logic it will help us to think right if we have ethics and logic in our life we will be having a better life because to think right is to do right. In ethics human is the center of morality because human can do they want ethics is all about the human characteristics and human behavior. We only know that right is right if we know what is wrong. In studying ethics it is also about the socialization from others‚ how we treat the other
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Ethics 3.1 1. Why are Christian ethics and theology inseparable? What did Francis Schaeffer mean when he said that not all things are the same to God? Christian ethics is inseparable from theology because it is grounded in the character of God. Francis Schaeffer said that not all things are the same to God and means that God exists and has a character‚ but not all things are the same to him. Some things conform to His character‚ and some are opposed to his character. 2. What did Schaeffer conclude
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of people to live in a functioning way‚ a set of rules must be established so that everyone is aware of the consequences of certain behaviors. The application of establishing a set of rules that labeled actions as wrong and right created morals. Morality is the standard by which choices are tested‚ but the origin of morals is questionable. Morals mark actions as good or evil but the genesis of these morals is an enigma. Some credit God with establishing the morals that must be
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with bad there is an end to all morality‚ and everyone can do and leave undone whatever he cares. This is also‚ stripped of his oracular phrases‚ Herr Duhring’s opinion. But the matter cannot be so simply disposed of. If it was such an easy business there would certainly be no dispute at all over good and bad; everyone would know what was good and what was bad. But how do things stand today? What morality is preached to us today? There is first Christian-feudal morality‚ inherited from past centuries
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When determining the status of morality there is three different options. Morality may be the different between objectives‚ relativistic‚ or it may be a complex set of rules. Moral nihilists are like relativists by denying ethical objectivism however‚ relativists believe in moral goodness‚ duty and virtue and nihilists don’t. Error theorists and expressivism are both forms of moral nihilism. Error theorists believe “our moral judgments are always mistaken”. Expressivists don’t agree and also deny
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on the subject of morality. One by one‚ Cephalus‚ Polymarchus‚ and Thrasymachus put forth their definitions of morality and one by one‚ they come up short. None survive the merciless scrutiny of the author’s mentor‚ Socrates. The first moral precept is introduced by Cephalus. This old but wealthy businessman offers a definition that Socrates eventually exposes to be far too narrow‚ and far too influenced by his own trade to be deemed adequate. Cephalus establishes that morality is to “always speak
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a theist couldn’t submit to the latter half as the truth. In addition‚ the atheistic view of the autonomy thesis has flaws as well. The atheistic model of autonomy maintains that self-interest allows us to arrive at the moral law. However‚ this morality would be subjective to different cultures and views. One might avoid the consequences of the law by resolving not to murder. It could then be implied that murdering is morally wrong. Hypothetically speaking though‚ if an individual was born to a
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