Moral Argument - Strengths and Weaknesses
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?- Created by: Grace Lidgett
- Created on: 02-01-13 13:05
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- Moral Argument
- Weaknesses
- It is an argument of probability and not certainty = we will not know if the summum bonum exsits until we die
- No logical reason our sense of right and wrong comes from God
- Brain Davis argued why God had to be assumed to bring highest good - 'why not a pantheon of angels?'
- Moral behaviour doesn't have to be rewarded with happiness
- Kant argued cultures agreed on the moral law but societies have different ideas of what is right and wrong
- Stoning is still used in some countries [Iran]
- No link between God and the afterlife
- Strengths
- Freud argues morality doesnt come from God, but there is no proof it comes from the super-ego
- Maybe God gave us the super-ego
- H.P Owen and Aquinas believe the moral law comes from God
- Hick suggested that we recognise moral claims as very important which implies another reality
- Makes sense of our own experience of right and wrong
- Weaknesses
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