Ethics - Nature of God
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- Ethics- Nature of good, nature of the human person and criteria we use for making right judgements
-Good Character
-We have free will, therefor ethics holds us responsible for our actions and guides morality.
-without good ethics, skills and talents can be directed towards evil.
-theory
Morality- fundamental beliefs, and obligation to follow norms, customs and habits of behaviour.
-rules, laws and commandments we have a duty or obligation to follow.
-performing
- Aristotle- Ethics shaped within ones community
-Pleasure is momentray, happiness is forever
- one reaches happiness through living and acting well
-Ethics aim to discover what is good and what permits us to reach our full potential.
-Humans can reason therefor can act ethically and determine the purpose and end and how to act and develop good character.
-Virtues help us with ethics which help us to be excellent humans
-Virtues are habit of doing good
-Must have balance within us. (virtue of love with justice)
-Avoid excess
Kant- Duty driven
-How we come to know things
-Reasoning in which we know the laws of nature and don’t abuse anything because of our free will. Ex excess drinking.
-What we ought to do
-Consious decisions based on our own moral principles
-Ethical life revolves around God, freedom and immortality
-Circumstances beyond control, freedom to learn and life beyond this one
-We make our own decisions on how to act depending on our duty to be good
Levinas- The face
-Each person creates traces of the good and God
-God is always one step ahead
-The face is unique to everyone and the most exposed part of the body
-The faces arouses the goodness within, and speaks through the humble
-Questions our self-centred side and calling us to be responsible for the other
- Every human choice has a moral and ethical ramification
-As you make a choice, you’re ethics come into question (how you feel)
-Ones ethics will dictate how one will act.
-We must locate the ethical in ourselves when making decisions
-ex:Personal response, experience of the other, obligation and contrast.
-SO when you feel a certain way, Morales come into play
-Morales are how you’ll respond to a certain feeling or situation
Ex:if you don’t feel like doing it but do it anyways as it’s the right thing to do.
- To be a moral agent is to lead in your actions
-Morality is shown through your actions and how you respond to a feeling
-A moral agent is someone who does things that even if not wants to be done does, for the simple reason it’s the right thing to do
-These people set an example for others and influence them to do the same and act the same way, which makes him or her an agent of morality
- STOP sign method
-What is right and wrong
-Propose, moral object, decision, circumstances etc
-Motives, why am I doing this?
-Who is involved?
-Who will it affect?
-Consequences
-Look for God
-Helps to establish grounds on why you’re doing something or to see how successful it will be. It helps to make sure the action justify the means and that you have a full understanding of your decision
- Freedom is an essential characteristic of ethics because it allows the person to establish their own set of ethics through experiences and the freedom to think and act.
-We can take responsibility for our actions with freedom. This forces us to think of our ethics and establish a basis for them
- Do Good and avoid Sin
-Moral rule is to do onto others as you would like you be treated and also do good and avoid sin
-We are bound to make mistakes and commit sins, but it’s more important to try our hardest to do the right thing even when were faced with adversity.
-It may not be easy, but doing the right thing is part of the moral rule and expected by all
- The good life is reaching happiness within yourself and playing an active role in your faith.
-The good life is being able to be happy with who you are and understanding your role in life, and then applying that to your community and impacting society, through individual efforts.
-First step is knowing yourself inside and out
-Next is developing a moral conscience (right and wrong)
-Next is moral development into family and faith community (Social factors as well, friends, family etc influence your moral development) Understanding peer pressure
-Finally is developing a moral identity. Understanding social context, and an individual contributor to society. Being a purposeful thinker. How you can help.
- A inside rating of right and wrong of an action or situation and your ability to act accordingly
-Its our ability to establish the moral quality of a given act
-Starts from ground one and focuses on context not just action
-Inner voice guiding us to the rightness and wrongness of ones behaviour
Three senses:
-Conscience as a capacity: Everyone has a sense of conscience, capacity to know to do good and avoid evil, instinctive knowledge of whats wrong and against nature, only true to ourselves when we follow ad listen to our conscience.
-Consience as a process: Must be informed, formed and examined. We must learn to think correctly. Formed in community, other people influences what it means to be human. Reflection and analysis
-Consience as judgement: Must make a decision after examining all factors. Actually doing whats right and avoiding wrong is conscience.
- Ethics would be compromised because naturalism believes in no supernatural forces and only us, on earth, dictate who we are.
-Ethics are naturally determined by God and therefor are bent naturally towards his way.
-Ethics are also discovered from experience.
-If only discovered by experience, than the meaning of ethics would change. Ethics would be whatever people felt was right, which would lead the world into chaos and disorder.
-Ethics wouldn’t be a general right and wrong anymore established and imbetted in us by God but instead our own set of rights and wrongs we can either choose to follow or not follow.
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