Moral Theories A. Morality comes from God. Therefore, moral behavior is that behavior that conforms to the will of God. Immoral behavior defies the will of God. The will of God is correctly interpreted by the Church. Rating: 6.
I was feeling this one, until the last sentence. There are so many denominations, and the reason is that they disagree with one another. Many religions interpret what the will of God is differently, not to mention incorrectly. I do believe that a big part of morality comes from God. B. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Rating: 1! Ahhh, the Golden Rule-you gotta love it. I suppose the only problem is like the example in the book of the African tribe that eats their dead, if I died there, they would eat me because they would want to be eaten. Very tricky. C. Be whatever you are; do whatever you want to do-just as long as you don’t hurt anybody. Rating: 7.
This sounds to me like humanism, although I’m not sure anymore if I know what that is. If this were something we lived our lives around, then it doesn’t sound like there would be many people helping out others, just themselves. D. The end justifies the means. An action is “right” if it ultimately produces largely beneficial effects, “wrong” if it produces harmful effects. Rating: 2.
I like this one, and I say it quite often (I’m not sure if that is good or bad).
Someone used the example of war, and I agree with that. E. There is no universal morality.
The Term Paper on God and Morality
The question is this – Is it possible to be of good moral character while not believing in God? Looking at the definition of morality as defined in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy the term morality can be used descriptively or actively. A] to refer to some code of conduct put forward by a society or some other group such as religious. Or put forward by a society and is acceptable to an ...
Moral values come from the laws and norms of the society. Therefore, what is morally right in one society could be morally wrong in another… Doesn’t the answer to this one really decide if you are an objectivist or realist? My husband and I argued this one, and he is a strong objectivist. I am caught in the middle because I don’t understand how you can truly impose your beliefs on people that have no idea what we consider to be right. What if people tried to do that to us? F.
People never act immorally deliberately. When a person acts immorally, it is because he or she has a mistaken notion of what is truly good. Immoral behavior is ignorance or stupidity, not wickedness… Whoa, do I disagree with this one. I do believe many people do wrong things because of ignorance, but there are many people who do things wrong and they do it knowing that it is wrong.
Look at how rampant adultery is. G. Do unto others as they have done unto you… I do not think this is at all like the Golden Rule. There is also the saying “Two wrongs don’t make a right.” H.
Deep down inside, we all know the difference between right and wrong. Being human means being born with a moral sense… I don’t like this one either. I don’t think we are born with a sense of most anything.
We become who we are based on the experiences of our life. What we are exposed to determines how well we learn what is wrong and right. There are many people who grow up seeing bad things and decide they want to do the opposite, because they also can rationalize the outcome of the wrongdoing. I. My own superior standard: Help others, respect differences, do the best you can, and learn from life’s lessons. (just kidding).
What is the most valid claim? “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” The strength lies in turning every scenario that you might encounter back onto yourself. The weakness would be if a person does not have the knowledge or capacity to understand the other person’s perspective. What is the least valid claim? “Do unto others as they have done unto you.” You could also throw in another common claim that goes “Do unto others before they do unto you.” The weakness with this is it implies that you cannot do something good until somebody does something good for you. What if no one made the first move? Then no one would do anything good.
The Essay on Inately Wrong filled with Inately Good
A struggle of survival of the inocent or a survival of the wanted? Caught between the two, the book Of Mice and Men takes a look at problem that may not only have happened, but still happens this day. In the story, George and Lennie face problems of survival, but each with problems of their own that lead to an ending of sadness. Lennie, a man that faces the struggle of living with mental ...
The reverse is if someone does something bad to you then you should do the same thing? This does not make sense to me. Wouldn’t it be called revenge?
