Bible Ethics

Ethics

The study of moral conduct, values, duties, and goodness

Morality

refers to a personal system of determining right and wrong based on some standard.

Teleological

Any ethical system that judges morality by the __consequences of the actions__*.*

Judges actions as right or wrong by their ends, or purpose.

Deontological

Any ethical system that judges morality based upon some __principal of duty__.

What issues arise with teleological based morality?

why do we act against our own self interest, how can we predict the consequences to our actions

How does secularism view ethics?

Humans make ethical rules, naturalist view of ethics, scientism

How does Marxism view ethics?

religion and capitalism are immoral, ends justify the means, proletarianism

How does Islam view ethics?

Quran, Hadith, ethics and law are the same, Divine command theory - right and wrong are determined by God’s commands

How does new spirituality view ethics?

attain higher consciousness, morality is in each of us, karma

How does Postmodernism view ethics?

reject notion of universal norms, cultural relativism - ethics is relative to one’s community, pragmatism - **since truth is whatever works, morality is whatever is useful for society.**

How does christianity view ethics?

Ethics come from God’s character, divine command theory, Luke 10:27, Sermon on the Mount (5-7)

Luke 10:27

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and, Love your neighbor as yourself.

Hedonism

pleasure/self satisfaction is the proper aim of human life

utilitarianism

The most ethical choice is the one that benefits the most amount of people

ethical egoism

whatever maximizes my self interest is morally good

Eudaimonism

purpose of life is to live a life of flourishing, including the bad

Ethical libertarianism

people live best when they have liberty and agree not to harm others

Moral skepticism

objective moral knowledge is inaccessible or impossible

pragmatism

morality is what ever is useful for society or practical

existentialism

since we create our own meaning we ought to do what ever helps us become our most authentic selves.

Transcendental idealism

Our duty as humans is to figure out what is good without qualification and then pursue it

rationalism

God has made us as thinking beings, so we must use our reasoning ability to live virtuously