Morality Arguments

Question 1

Guilty conscience argument

Answer 1

Cardinal John Newman - if you something wrong, you’ll feel guilty because God knows what you’ve done

Question 2

Evolution of moral knowledge

Answer 2

Wilson - humans work together otherwise they’d become extinct, we’ve evolved to become better to survive

Question 3

Social conditioning

Answer 3

Freud - You develop a conscience as you grow up as a result of our childhood, influences etc

Question 4

Morally necessary

Answer 4

Immanuel Kant - people who believe in heaven and hell will do good things because they don’t want to go to hell

Question 5

Moral law argument

Answer 5

Hasting Rashdall - absolute moral idea can only exist in a mind where all reality is defined