Issues of Good & Evil Flashcards
Define relative morality
The idea that what makes an act wrong is changes with the time and situation (situation ethics)
Define absolute morality
Morals which are universal and never changed (murder is wrong)
Christian quote for death penalty
'’An eye for an eye’’
-Old Testiment
Christian quote for justice
'’let justice roll down like a river’’
Bible
Christian quotes to use against death penalty (2)
Sanctity of life quotes
* ‘‘God controls if we live or die’’
* ‘‘I knit you in your mothers womb’’
Where do Christians believe good comes from? (2)
- Comes from God who is good and created everything to be good
- Good is revealed by God to Moses in the Commandments
Where do Christians believe evil comes from? (4)
- The Fall
- The Devil
- God gave us free will and we abused that
- They believe there is no such thing as Evil, just an absence of good
Where do Buddhists believe good comes from? (3)
- Metta and Karuna
- Nirvana
- Skillfull acts, so good karma
Where do Buddhists believe evil comes from? (3)
- The 3 poissions
- Tanha
- Mara
What makes an act wrong/right (7)
- Going against the law
- Goes against personal morals
- Done with bad intentions
- Not bringing the greatest happiness for the greatest number
- Not the most loving thing to do
- Goes against natural law
- Goes against the 10 commandment
Define morality
Principles and standards determing which actions are right and wrong
Define sin
A deliberate act against God’s will
Define crime
An act which goes against the law
Define punishment
Penalty given to someone for a crime commited
Define justice
Fariness / equal provisions provided for everyone
Define moral evil
Human chosen evil
Define natural evil and give an example
Naturally enduced Evil e.g. earthquakes
Causes of crime (7)
- Poor parenting
- Poor education
- Poverty
- Addictions
- Peer pressure
- Unemployment
- Poor mental health
What are the aims of punishment (5)
- To maintain the law
- To ensure revenge on the victim
- Justice to ensure fairness
- Reformation / to change the criminal
- To stop people from commiting crimes again
Christian quote showing only god can forgive
'’father forgive them’’
Christian example for forgiveness of criminals
Jesus saved the adulterous woman and said that ‘‘he who has not sinned can cast the first stone’’
Christian quote showing forgiveness
'’Father forgive them for they not know what they do’’
Buddhist quote to do with punishment
'’we are not punished by our anger but for our anger’’ (the person already suffers for committing the crime)
Describe the role of a prison chaplin (9)
- Can be Vicars / Rabbis
- Counsel inmates
- Help rehabilitate inmates
- Pray and read the bible with them
- Work with probation officers
- Help prison staff
- Prepare inmates for death row
- Go to death cell with inmates
- Care for inmates famiy
name two prison reformers
- Elizabeth Fry
- John Howard
What did Elizabeth Fry do (3)
Changed prisons to
* Teach prissoners to read and write
* Read the bible to prisoners
* Taught prisoners how to sew
What did John Howard do (4)
Changed prisons to
* Have clean water
* Seperate genders
* Have more officers
* Have more doctors
Name a prison in need of reform
Bedford Prison
Define prison reformer
Someone who attemps to improve the conditions of a prison
What is the problem of evil / inconsistent triad (4)
- If God is omnibenevolent he should want to stop evil and therefore not be onmipotent
- If God is omnipotent and can stop evil he is not omnibenevolent
- If God is both omnibenevolent and omnipotent then evil does not exist
- God doesn’t exist
What does Augustine say in respond to the problem of evil (4)
- Evil is a punishment from God for human sin
- Evil is an absence of Good
- Evil comes from The Fall
- To develop God’s likeness we must have free will and some people abuse this
What do Irenaues & Hick say in respond to the problem of evil (2)
- It is a test from God
- To develop God’s likeness we must have free will and some people abuse this
What type of Christian was Augustine
Catholic
What type of Christians were Ireneaus & Hick
Liberal
