Religion and Morality
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- Religion and Morality
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- Plato:"Consider this question: Is what is pious loved by God because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by God?"
- Rachels: "To be a moral agent is to be an autonomous or self-directed agent"
- Emily Bruner: "The Good consists in always doing what God wills at any particular moment"
- A.J Ayer: "no authority can be founded on authority even if the authority were divine"
- Dostoevsky: "without God everything is permissible"
- Divine Command Theory: God is an absolute necessity for morality
- Without religion, what reason is there fore being good?
- H.P Owen "It is impossible to think of a command without a commander"
- Newman: "feelings of responsibility and guilt point towards God."
- Dawkins "Religion is a Virus"
- Lucretius "such evil things could religion provoke"
- Tillich
- Theonomy: and ethic given by God
- Heteronomy: an ethic imposed by an external source
- Autonomy: an ethic from within, developed by ourselves
- Morality is dependent of religion
- goodness is something intrinsic to God by definiton -thus God is good and therefore morality is dependent of religion
- Divine Command Theory: God is an absolute necessity for morality
- Without religion, what reason is there fore being good?
- Religion provides reason to be morals - logical to suggest that if morality and morals are decided upon by judgement and reason , then its rational that morality is dependent of religion
- God is moral - "created mankind in his own image" - human reason is absorbed into moralities essence
- Order of Being and Order of Knowledge
- Removal of religion = removal of morals? E.G Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia
- Kant's Summum Bonum
- Morality is independent of religion
- humans obey God out of fear of punishment - not because its moral
- Kant argued this shouldn't be motivation for moral judgement
- James Rachels - Obedience is not a moral agent
- Commander and follower example
- Russell - religion prevents us from progressing and stands in the way of knowledege and truth - including the knowledge and truth about morality
- Dawkins "Religion is a Virus"
- Mroals change over time - religion is unchaning
- Kierkegaard - Abraham and Isaac - God's morality is twisted?
- humans obey God out of fear of punishment - not because its moral
- Euthrypho Dilema
- Are actions moral because God says they are, or are they moral within themselves?
- Absolute moral laws that even God is subjected too
- Which commands which?
- Are actions moral because God says they are, or are they moral within themselves?
- Hume - Religion causes immorality? - Terrorism
- Lucretius "such evil things could religion provoke"
- Different Religious truths - cant come from the same source
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