Morality Flashcards
(18 cards)
What does Hp Owen say about the moral necessity of God?
That God is the commander.
We cannot have “law without a lawgiver”.
God is the objective moral standard against who, we judge the goodness of our actions.
What does JH Newman say about the moral necessity of God?
God is the voice.
We have the transgressed voice of consciousness as “the voice of love” “deep without our hearts”.
Human beings have a sense of moral duty which points to to a divine source.
Why is morality pointless with religion?
Sex abuses in the church- 216,000 victims of sexual abuse carried out by the French Catholic Church’s clergy between 1950 and 2020.
Rules of the church are too harsh and absolute- women’s rights, slavery.
Nietzsche claims a new morality will arise. Slave morality in religion.
Why is religious morality needed?
Voltaire said he would want his gardener, baker and farm hands to all believe in God. Protecting his house from, thieving hands. Religion therefore preserves a degree of moral decency and order in society. Fear of hell.
How are religion and morality not linked according to Rachel’s?
Morality is something that exists independently of religious doctrines and can be grounded in secular humanist principles like utilitarianism.
One must be autonomous in their way of thinking and that the commandments are not justication. Actions must be compelling in itself regardless of religion.
What is religion according to Freud?
An obsession nerosis. Stems from the unconscious mind and takes the form of compulsive disorders.
Religion contradicts put natural inclinations and causing our emotions to be repressed.
What is freuds Oedipus complex?
The explanation of the origins of guilt. People seek a loving father and project these qualities onto god.
What does russel say about morality?
From continent to continent what is deemed moral differs greatly. Cu,rural relavism.
What does russel say about moral behaviour?
We pick up moral behaviour from our parents by osmosis. We learn morality at our nurses knees.
What is the euthupro dilemma?
Is what is morally good commanded by god because it is morally good? Or is it morally good because it is commanded by god?
What are the issues with premises 1?
This would mean that there is an independent standard of moral goodness from God. God may just conform to the standard and pass it onto human kind.
What are the issues with premises 2?
Any behaviour could be morally good if god commands it. Contrary to what Christians believe about god.
What does Craig say about god?
God wills something because he is good, and it is his “nature”. His commandments “reflect his nature”.
What does Kierkegaard say about the dilemma?
Faith trumps ethics. Faith is the highest virtue.
What goes aquanias say about what we experience?
We experience things that are noble, true and good. To avoid infinite regression we must conclude that there is something that is the most noble, true and good- God.
What does aquanias say about morality?
We “grade things” to an absolute standard.
Our sense of morality is only a pale reflection of the morality that exists in the divine good.
What does aquanias say about god as a lawgiver?
Moral laws cannot come from human society or chance or reason. Without god there is no standard for morality.
What does Dawkins say about morality?
Moral practice has never stood still. It is derived from the ever evolving the prevailing values of society.
