People who are trying to apply this broad, deep, Christian version of the word love/agape. People are flawed, jealous, greedy, have agendas, if all rules can be overridden by giving the excuse that it is done with love, then what is the point of making ethical judgements at all? If you look at case studies and apply a couple of different ethical theories to them as well as analyzing them from a situation ethic's perspective you will see the benefit of it as a theory as it basically states that 'All moral decisions are hypothetical, the only decision is to decide what the most loving thing to do is' and the end always justifies the means. Situational ethics are about real life events, they are applied to the outcomes of each real life acts and judged individually. The only moral compass, as rules can be broken and overridden, is Agape.
A second challenge of Hume is that we are able to possibly imagine that something can cause itself into existence. This challenge severely weaken's Aquinas argument from cause as it suggests that in fact there is no need for a fist cause as regress of cause and effect is disrupted. Anscombe's response to Hume is, in "When there is a beginning there must be a cause: Hume's argument exposed," that it may be possible to imagine this being the case but it is illogical to suppose that this is the case as it is a "contradiction to absurdity" to decide that "it could be" therefore "it is." It is similar to imagine that a magician may be able to pull a rabbit out of a hat without any prior knowledge of its existence but to suppose it is the case that this has happened is illogical. However modern theoretical and quantum physicists have begun to produce evidence that it is perhaps evident that energy has the ability to come into existence of its own accord which would
“The Importance of Le Chambon” Are we “to be our brother’s keeper?” that is a question of moral responsibility. The people of Le Chambon believed it was their duty as Christians to reach out and protect those in need. They risked their lives, and the lives of their children to help. In today’s society, is it our obligation to be responsible for others? In a world that is filled with such things as hate, war, terrorists, genocide, starvation, etc., goodness can be challenging.
Dalton is afraid that Americans are blinded from reality because they are given false hope of achieving the American Dream. Despite Brooks and Daltons polar approaches in viewing the American Dream, the idea within both arguments can be similar. Brooks’ view of time differs from Dalton’s in which Brooks’ view of the American Dream is from the vantage point of the future, while Dalton is concerned with the issues in America today. Dalton believes that it is impossible to eventually reach the American Dream because of issues like racism and social class. He thinks that it is impossible to progress with the ideas of racism and social class, and that we can’t move forward until these issues are neutralized.
To call such an experience illusory would be close to blasphemy for some. Equally, Saul’s experience on the road to Damascus which led to him becoming one of Christianity’s most important early leaders was a deep religious conversion experience, similar to the modern day example of Nicky Cruz. Christians would find it hard to accept that such a conversion was based on an illusion. Stories such as Moses’ experience with the burning bush would also be taken as certain proof of the existence of religious experiences, based on the fact that such is written in the Bible and must therefore – so some Christians would believe – be entirely true. It is difficult to challenge people who hold this view because to them their belief in the absolute truth of the Bible (or other Holy Book) is so essential to their beliefs about God that to suggest otherwise – perhaps by quoting example of scripture that are particularly unkind, such as views on women and homosexuals – would be considered unthinkable, and contradict their whole belief system.
At times I wouldn't blame them if they were to think this in any way but I am going to have to say that have a little faith in us. What we do cane either make or break America. My responsibility is to be able to demonstrate to others that it is not a bad thing to have ambition and strive for the best in whatever it is we want to pursue. Everything we want to do or be starts with education. Even though Education can be very tedious and at moments seem extremely difficult we just need to get through it, after all education is not something meant to be easy because then it is not education and we are not learning anything, the goal is to learn, comprehend as much information and apply that to the world we live in.
For the last century, philosophers have focused on problems concerning religious language. After understanding that language is the way that we communicate concept, trying to describe concepts that no one physically sees and hears, such as God became a massive dilemma. Religious believers have to use language to make statements about God and his being and aspects known to be able to express human understanding. How do the meanings of words change when applied to God? To use univocal or universal language for God raises the problem being that if we argue God is ‘all loving,’ we would also be able to describe a loved one as such, thus demining his almighty status as a supreme being, so how can we use words to accurately describe God?
Tocqueville argues that the only thing which will keep Americans away from these dangers, which would undoubtedly lead to despotism is religion as source of moral education. He says that all decisions by man are a result of the values which man has received from god and without these values we would be left to a life full of disorder. Religion indirectly affects the state through mores which are described as “the whole moral and intellectual state of a people.”(287) These mores are what prevents democracies from being engulfed by the dangers which are products of tyranny and despotism. In a state without religion “each man gets into the way of having nothing but confused and changing notions about the matters of greatest importance to himself and his fellows”(444) and when combating materialism, the presence of religion “places the
Our children will always look up to certain men and women of the world, but we must remind them that it is one's character and integrity that makes a person a good example to follow; not the material or worldly status they obtain. Regardless of who our children look up to in this world, they need to be taught the importance of making Jesus the greatest influence of their lives. Let's examine a few reasons
Razhon Forbes Com 436 Response Paper 1A 9-6-2013 Trust your Gut, Use your Brain If I were to plagiarize most of this paper would it be an ethical or moral dilemma on my part? And why? Most people would have most likely said that it is both ethically and morally wrong for me to plagiarize without even knowing the difference between the two. It can be difficult to define what ethics actually is, so let’s start with what it is not. Ethics is not a set of values in which we base our life upon.