- If ethics are based on religion
- Divine command theory: What commands is good, whatever god forbids is wrong
- Positives
- Authoritative: God is omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent,
- Clear guidelines: If human laws contradict goods commands god wins
- Negatives
- not compelling to atheists
- no room for human rationality
- Interpertation
- Where do we find gods commands
- different people cite different texts and rationality: Why do people believe in their tradition; socialization
- even within traditions there are differ within traditions, there are differing opinions (i,e,) abortion
- selective interpretation: west borrow baptist church; god hates gays so he kills people in Afghanistan: Leviticus, but why don't we have to not eat pork and own slaves
- Plato
- Euthyphro dilemma; knows what is good; says killing a slave is good; Socrates proves that it's wrong
- Ethics- Study of morality
- Aesthetics- philosophy of beauty
- Thoretical ethics- defenition of basic principles
- reading on moodle
- natural law- everything has a plan
- If we listen to god we will have eternal happiness - divine law
- everything has a purpose
- Argument
- Conclusion - The claim in need of justification
- Premise - evidence in support of the claim
- Normative statements: directive to action "should", "ought", "should not"
- Inference indicators: an argument indicator "George is a lawyer therefore George tells the truth"
- Sue is rich because she is an M.D.
- Indicators
- Conclusion- Therfore, So, Hence
- Premise- Because, Since, due to
