The relationship between a theistic God (considering there is one) and morality cannot be explained in simply a few sentences. One may immediately come to the conclusion that God decides what is moral and immoral. This is known as Divine Command Theory which says that morality is dependent on God’s commands. However, this gives rise to the other side that says an action is moral because God approves of it. This is known as the Autonomy thesis which says that morality is not dependent on God’s commands.
He defined conscience in this way as “the mind of man making moral judgements” and defined it as having two parts- synderesis and conscientia (decision leading to a particular action). Therefore, for Aquinas Conscience is being able to distinguish between right and wrong and to make decisions when a person is confronted with a difficult moral situation. Aquinas always put forward the idea that it was right to follow your conscience; by this he means that it is always right to apply your moral principles to each situation as well as you can. However, he does not mean that if you follow your conscience you are always right (as if your basic principles are wrong your conscience will also be wrong too) In relation to whether conscience is the voice of reason Aquinas highlighted that conscience is just reasoning used correctly to find out what God sees is good and is therefore not just a voice inside of us. However, it has been argued by some Christians that this rationalistic approach does not consider revelation that comes directly from God.
With god/s grounding the moral the foundation of the moral becomes arbitrary because it would only be good because god says its so. Also calling god good would not make any sense since he decided what good is or isn't, so how could he be good unless the moral was grounding him? If piety was a certain care of the god’s we could look to do always what is Pious and in return we would be worshiping/caring for the god/s if they exists. If the God’s are looking to something the “moral,piety” then if you act pious in your actions through life you will be in a way worshiping the god’s, because you are honoring what they already honer. The problem with this idea is when people think god grounds the moral
Part IV: Book Summary The idea of justice in the world today is often misconstrued; the most commonly accepted definition of justice is giving someone what the rightly deserve. This definition in itself is accurate, but it is not complete. Keller, in his book Generous Justice: How God’s Grace makes us Just, endeavors to inform the reader of the biblical definition of justice. He proposes that justice is not only giving someone what they deserve, but also graciously giving to the undeserving. He urges his readers to identify with
A worldview is a way of thinking about truth and reality. It sums up the basic conclusions about life and meaning that a person figures out and lives. A particular philosophy of life or conception of the world. It is the sum total of what we believe about the most important issues of life. According to the biblical, the Christians worldview on the origin of life is that Christians believe that God created everything that exists.
Even in contemporary society, we tend to associate morality with some kind of divine will, but through the Euthyphro, Socrates seems to suggesting we think along another line altogether. Is something moral because God commands it? Does morality depend on religious belief? A common view among religious, and even some secular, philosophers is that just as conventional laws require lawmakers, morals also require some ultimate source. The Divine Command Theory is the view that moral actions are those that conform to God's will.
I’ve learned to depend on God who is the most important person in my life. I’ve learned that no matter what life sets up for me I’m an over comer and through him all things are possible. Many people would often say: “That their mother or father, president, or pastor would bring them inspiration and would be most important in their life,” but I can truly say that at this point in my life God has my undivided attention and I am his number one
Meta ethics tries to make sense of the terms and concepts used in ethical theories such as Utilitarianism and Natural Law. Some people believe that ethical language is extremely meaningful as they argue it is essential to be able to define terms such as “good” and “bad” before we can even begin to discuss ethical theories. However others disagree with this and argue that moral statements are subjective so are meaningless, as they cannot be described as either true or false. Those who hold cognitive theories about ethical language would argue that ethical statements are not meaningless as they are about facts, and can therefore be proved true or false. Ethical Naturalism is a cognitive theory of meta ethics which holds the belief that
Thus, he believes there is no reason why should you live a moral life rather than for one's self. Fidley asks Seltzer one last question, “what motivation for adopting the moral point of view can you possibly offer without a belief in God and immorality?” which leads us to this quote, “When religion tells us that there is nothing more we can say about morality than that we can’t see the reasons for it, but do it if you know what’s good for you, then I do condemn it. We can do better than that. We can become moral grown-ups. And if there were a God, surely he would approve”.
Free will means that God does not have any set destiny for us. If God were to create free agents that could only choose good, that would mean that God laid out a destiny of good for all agents. Even though God is omniscient, free will is still possible because while God may know the choices we are going to make, he is not the cause of them. Since God does not choose or cause our destiny, we still have free will. In response to the option in which God creates a world with free agents and no evil, a world with no evil would mean a world with no good, so it would be impossible for God to create a free agents that only choose good, since evil does not exist.