+implication of axiology to religious value
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4) What are the three main domains of
Ethics? What questions do they try to answer?
Value
theory: Value theory involves various approaches that examine how, why, and to
What degree humans value things and whether the object or subject of valuing is
A person, idea, object, or anything else. Within philosophy, it can be known as
Ethics or axiology.
6) What is the definition of Fideism?
What is Fideism applied to moral questions?
Fideism
Is the belief that religion is the only possible source of moral
Guidance (excluding any other source). Fideism is an epistemological theory
Which maintains that faith is independent of reason, or that reason and faith
Are hostile to each other and faith is superior at arriving at particular
Truths.
9) Why is Duns Scotus’ Divine Command
Theory deeply problematic (even from a religious point of view)?
The
First horn of the dilemma posed by Socrates to Euthyphro is that if an act is
Morally right because God commands it, then morality becomes arbitrary.
Moreover, God is not subject to a moral law that exists external to him. On the
Modified Divine Command Theory, the moral law is a feature of God's nature.
This theory proposes that an action is morally good if it is commanded by God.
God could’ve said that murder is good. But murder is bad because it is its
Nature to bad, not because God decided it was bad.
10) What is the core idea of an ethical
Theory based on Natural Law? Explain and give an example.
The
Core idea of natural law is that what is good or bad is inscribed in our
Nature. For example, it is bad murdering or hurting someone because it is
Against their natural biological functions. Call it the Natural Law
Argument—goes like this:
1. If an act is unnatural, then it is
Immoral.
2. Suicide, contraception, and homosexual activity are unnatural. 3. Therefore
Suicide, contraception, and homosexual activity are immoral.
11) What is “Hume’s Law” in Ethics?
Explain and discuss with examples and objections.
You
Cannot derive an ought from an is. This means that by just
Describing how the world is, you cannot come to an ethical conclusion about
What should or ought to be done. For example, polygamy, it has
Happened through time but that doesn’t make it right. Another example would be
Ancient cultures that used to kill people when they did something bad, but now
We can’t take justice in our hands and kill people every time they do something
Bad.