Religion and Morality are linked
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- Religion and Morality are Linked
- Divine Command Ethics
- God alone decides what's right or wrong
- Religious Texts give reasons the law should be obeyed
- In a world of DCE and no God, everything is permitted
- "Sin is disobedience to the commands of God" - A.G.Grayling
- Religious Texts give reasons the law should be obeyed
- If one is being good due to fear of punishment, is one being good?
- "Morality must not lower herself. Her own nature must be her recommendation. All else, even divine reward, is nothing beside her." - Kant
- God alone decides what's right or wrong
- Conscience
- Conscience comes from God
- St Paul - sees conscience as awareness of of what is good and bad but can be mistaken
- Augustine of Hippo - conscience as a tool for observing the law of God and God speaking to us
- St Thomas Aquinas - device for deciding what's right or wrong, people want to be good and when wrong they persuaded an apparent good.
- Joseph Butler - Conscience as final moral decision maker. Human influenced by benevolence and self-love, conscience encourages benevolence. Conscience must be obeyed.
- "Our natural guide, assigned to us by the author of nature
- Conscience comes from God
- Moral Arguments
- Moral arguments argue from the idea that, as Doestoevsky says, "If there is no God, then everything is permissible.”
- Kant - not an argument, said it was necessary to postulate a God but could not prove it
- H.P.Owen - "impossible to think of Commands without thinking of a commander"
- John Henry Newman - feeling of guilt means someone knows what we've done is wrong - good
- "This implies that there is one to whom we are responsible." Newman
- William Lane Craig - If God doesn't exist then Objective Moral facts wouldn't exist, they do - God exists
- Moral arguments argue from the idea that, as Doestoevsky says, "If there is no God, then everything is permissible.”
- Natural Moral Law
- Aristotle suggests that everything is aimed at an ultimate goal, suggesting there is a natural Law that governs living things.
- This means that everything will benefit if it strives to fulfill it's purpose and a thing is 'good' when it can reach it's goal easily and efficiently
- Aquinas saw Natural Law as created from God. Aquinas thought that we were able to discover our purpose using intellectual abilities
- 1) We should act virtuously 2) Avoid sin or failing our purpose 3) Have fruitful marriages 4) Seek to learn about the world 5) Worship God
- Aristotle suggests that everything is aimed at an ultimate goal, suggesting there is a natural Law that governs living things.
- Divine Command Ethics
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