Rel 101 session 12
- 1. REL 101 Introduction to Religion Session 12 Religion and Morality
- 2. Religion and Morality How do you know if something is right or wrong? Do people need to be religious in order to know right and wrong? Can religion prevent one from knowing right and wrong?
- 3. Ethics and Morality Ethics Is the study of what constitutes what is good. It ask if a particular course of action right or wrong Morality is ways of thinking, feeling and acting that focuses on concern for human welfare.
- 4. Justifications for Morality Deontological reasons It judges the morality of an action based on the action's adherence to rules or duties. Rule-deontological and Act-deontological
- 5. Justifications for Morality Teleological reasons Focuses on the consequences which any action might have. When we make choices which result in the correct consequences, then we are acting morally; when we make choices which result in the incorrect consequences, then we are acting immorally. Rule-teleological and Act-teleological
Editor's Notes
- #3: Begin with video clip from Republican candidate. Do you think that he was right in what he did? He makes this announcement in a religious community. Does that have any bearing on the morality he is espousing?
- #4: But the two have similar and often interchangable meanings. Ethics in the homosexual rights will focus on whether homosexuality is right or wrong – why, sources of authority – Christians, Jews Muslims might cite scripture verses, or they may make arguments from a sociological point of view – what it does or does not do to society. Example of
- #5: Act-deontological concentrates on duties, Rule-deontological consentrates on rules.
- #6: In order to make correct moral choices, we have to have some understanding of what will result from our choices. When we make choices which result in the correct consequences, then we are acting morally; when we make choices which result in the incorrect consequences, then we are acting immorally