Ideas/ scholars for Flashcards
Moral codes
derived from religion
Moral opinions
judged against standards set by religious teaching
Secular Words
Adopts/ influenced by moral teaching and looks to religion to make a moral stand
religious leaders/ believers
expected to have high standards of morality
religious believers
stand out against moral outrage
Divine command ethics
(Decalogue)
- Human reason has no authority
- God has absolute authority
Aquinas’ 4th way in the Simms theologica
- graduation in things pointed to God
- God is supreme source of goodness and in his very essence to be perfectly good
- God makes us good
Kant - the critique of practical reason
Argument for existence of God based on existence of morality
Kant - critique of practical reason - summun bonum
Humans have categorical Imperative (duty) to seek highest form of good = summun Bonum
Conscience definition
God given voice/ voice of god/ informed by religious teaching
NT - Paul says the conscience is?
Universal, god given, affected by the fall (corrupt), can be redeemed by Jesus
Conscience and aquinas
He associated it with natural law which leads humans to acknowledge gods moral law