We are not body, soul, and spirit, as taught in the Bible, but just body.” This means that all humans are created with somewhat of a sense of morality. I say “somewhat” for the sake of the mentally disabled. Everyone will be held accountable for how they lived their life here on earth, whether mentally challenged or not. Many theologians and I myself fully agree with this statement. Theologians like Dan Story obviously believe that no one person can judge.
Written In Stone After reading the article “Some Moral Minima” by Lenn Goodman, I must admit that I agree that there are certain things that are flat line wrong. Living in today’s society with so many different cultures, religious and political beliefs we are bound to view some aspects of life differently. I must say however, some should never fall in that category. Genocide seeks to destroy a race, a culture even a class. Slavery allows one man to imprison another man that is his equal, to a life he doesn’t choose.
They consider the possibility that human beings are controlled by external forces and are not able to exercise free will. The argument that free will and determinism are compatible, is best challenged by soft determinists. This is the idea that our actions are controlled by external forces to a certain extent, but we should still be held accountable for what we choose to do. Finally, predestination claims that a deity is the ultimate cause who determines all human actions. All Christians to a certain extent believe that free will plays an important role in their lives (most commonly seen in their faith and actions).
Rand says “Reality, the external world, exists independent of man’s consciousness, independent of any observer’s knowledge, beliefs, feelings, desires or fears…” (qtd. The Ayn Rand Institute 1). Consciousness, therefore, is to distinguish reality, not to fashion or form it around a personal belief. Consequently, Objectivists reject all forms of a supernatural or any beliefs unfounded in fact. In the quote below Rand explains why she rejects religion outright, and she believes man himself deserves the attention: Just as religion has preempted the field of ethics, turning morality against man, so it has usurped the highest moral concepts of our language, placing them outside this earth and beyond man’s reach.
Appiah also asserts that both positivism and relativism cannot support the idea of cosmopolitanism because the definition of cosmopolitanism is that every humanity should belongs in to one community, in this community, people respect and communicate with each other in moral way. Everybody shares their thoughts and form a group. Although positivism dose respect each other, their ethics are only judge by right or wrong. As Appiah mentioned that “if relativism about ethics and morality were true, then, at the end of many discussions, we would each have to end up saying, from where I stand, I am right. From where you stand, you are right.”(26) But everyone has different feelings, different perspectives to view different things.
In gods eyes a sin is a sin, he had a universal way of looking at things. To God it doesn’t matter who you are or what you did on earth. If you sinned, then you were to be punished. Even a priest wasn’t safe from his eternal suffering if he deserved it. God made sure he had a certain outline of rules to be followed so no one could say I didn’t know.
Galt communicates that the evil of the world is made possible only by the sanction of the victim, and that individuals must withdraw their sanction. People must understand that they are enslaved and they must be able to identify their enemies. Galt states that the individual has sole control over his or her own happiness, with no one else to blame problems on, “No one’s happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or destroy” (786). This philosophy completely rules out the popular looter slogans of, “I couldn’t help it!” (523), and “They made me do it!”
He feels that Dora made the right choices in her situation. As for Bob, Singer doesn’t believe that he made the best decision and feels that he should be punished for his actions. Singer thinks that the actions of both Bob and Dora are the same as the result of people in this world not donating money to help needy children. Singer states how easy it is to help a child by donating, yet so many people turn the other cheek and only think of themselves. According to Singer, it takes only $200 to save a child's life, and yet so many people are able but not willing to donate.
Only he can redeem, justify, and sanctify us, and we need all three for our salvation. So we understand that our nature is sinful, but through Jesus we can win the battle against our flesh. Paul wrote that through the law we come unto the knowledge that we are sinful. We understand that through the work of the law, that we cannot be justified in the sight of God. We must know that we are justified by grace apart from any works in the
My decision is virtuous as the individual was creating an unsafe environment, and I was following a moral code. If I were to issue a citation for every circumstance, it would be seen as deontological ethics. Conclusion In conclusion, through the comparison and dissimilarities of the three theories one can gain further understanding of the importance that ethics and social responsibility. The similarities between the three theories represent the good in people, their strive for excellence and justification. The differences in the three theories begin with the ethics and morality.