Religion and Ethics Quotes

Question 1

Sexual Ethics: Mark 10:12

Answer 1

What God has joined together, let no one separate

Question 2

Sexual Ethics: 1 Corinthians 7:9

Answer 2

It is better to marry than to be aflame with passion

Question 3

Sexual Ethics: Humanae Vitae - Catholic justification for homosexuality

Answer 3

Every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life

Question 4

Sexual Ethics: Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas - description of Homosexuality

Answer 4

Contra Ordinem Rationis

Question 5

Sexual Ethics: Leviticus 20:10 - adultery

Answer 5

If a man commits adultery… both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death

Question 6

Sexual Ethics: John 8:7 - Jesus’s teaching on adultery

Answer 6

Let the one without sin cast the first stone

Question 7

Sexual Ethics: On Liberty, J.S. Mill - libertarianism

Answer 7

Mankind are greater gainers… [if they allow each other] to live as seems good to themselves than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest

Question 8

Sexual Ethics: On Liberty, J. S. Mill - Harm principle

Answer 8

[The only time a government can exercise power over poeple] is to prevent harm to others

Question 9

Sexual Ethics: Lectures, Kant

Answer 9

[Homosexual sex] demeans man below the beasts

Question 10

Meta-Ethics: Ethical Studies, Bradley

Answer 10

To be moral is to live in accordance with the moral tradition of one’s country

Question 11

Meta-Ethics: Principa Ethica, Moore

Answer 11

Good is good and that is the end of the matter

Question 12

Meta-Ethics: Language, Truth and Logic, A. J. Ayer

Answer 12

Ethical statements are unverifiable and thus meaningless + Pure expressions of feeling

Question 13

Meta-Ethics: The Elements of Moral Philosophy, James Rachels - against Emotivism

Answer 13

Moral judgements appeal to reason