2007-12-07 16:29:24 · 12 answers · asked by Ace of Spades 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Our conscience must be properly formed to the objective norms of truth Who is God. Many will play God and think that they are the final arbitor for right and wrong. This is the lie
God has set up the limits in His divine wisdom and we collaborate with Him in achieving our supernatural end
2007-12-07 16:34:35 · answer #1 · answered by Gods child 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
We all have 2 great pillars of morality, Pleasure and pain. Those are the basic ones.
On the other hand we also have the ability to see from other perspectives than our own. Most of us who can do that well can teach it to others.
Morality is simple in some ways. When we are smaller, we learn not to stab our sibling in the eye, because our parent tells us to be careful. Our parents care because they invest in us, mothers also have a motherly instinct, fathers probably have something too. So mixing nature, with economics can lead to a simple morality too.
We may think that we can derive pleasure from something and it must be good. But we also might see another side of it when it comes to anothers expense. Many of us are naturally sympathetic towards people, even when we don't know them. We feel connections, we also feel what something painful might be like if it were done to us. Empathy, sympathy compassion. If the bible didn't exist, or we all dropped it at this moment, we'd still have trillions of pages of literature and human growth and learning that is valuable for a society to operate, as well as families to live well.
2007-12-08 00:45:25 · answer #2 · answered by anon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fallacy: begging the question
Many Christians also claim that only those who believe can live a moral life and those who do not believe in god have no moral compass. That implies that one lives a moral life, not because it is the right thing to do, but because god expects us to be moral. Again, the fallacy with this reasoning is that mitzvahs and morals should be followed because god or a holy book dictates rules to us and not for personal philosophical or spiritual reasons.
2007-12-08 00:32:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We as individuals must define morality whether we follow the doctrine of the bible or not. As civilized rational people we can deduct for example that killing is wrong. No one needs to be told that killing is wrong a perfectly stable mind can come to that conclusion, and if you need someone to tell you that killing is wrong because you cannot figure it out for yourself, than how can call yourself moral?
2007-12-08 00:38:01 · answer #4 · answered by Bellini 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Morality is defined by individuals.
Morality defined as collective laws are defined by the society in which we live.
2007-12-08 00:33:35 · answer #5 · answered by CC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Logic and empathy are the basis of morality: the empathy to care how your actions affect the rest of the universe and the logic to determine how they do so.
2007-12-08 00:35:01 · answer #6 · answered by scifiguy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Society. Morals evolve with us. That is why we don't sell out daughters, enslave our neighbors and stone our wives to death any more.
2007-12-08 00:36:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Both the individual (micro level), and the collective (macro level).
2007-12-08 00:34:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Even most animals don't kill each other in their own community, and they don't need bible or god for that.
So I expect you to be atleast more sensible than them.
2007-12-08 00:32:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I define my own.
2007-12-08 00:32:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋