Ethics, Religion, and Tough Moral Issues How can we hope to grapple with complex moral issues that have emerged only in recent years? Can religion alone handle the job? Consider the follow- ing case: According to a report by CNN, Jack and Lisa Nash made history when they used genetic testing to save the life […]
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Can religion alone handle the job? How can we hope to grapple with complex moral issues that have emerged only in recent years? Can religion alone handle the job? Consider the follow- ing case: According to a report by CNN, Jack and Lisa Nash made history when they used genetic testing to save the life
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How can we hope to grapple with complex moral issues that have emerged only in recent years? How can we hope to grapple with complex moral issues that have emerged only in recent years? Can religion alone handle the job? Consider the follow- ing case: According to a report by CNN, Jack and Lisa Nash
What is the relationship between religion and morality? Now consider the second question from above: What is the relationship between religion and morality? For many people, the most interesting query about the relationship between religion and morality is this: Is God the maker of morality? That is, is God the author of the moral law?
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So what is the relationship between religion and morality? For our purposes, we should break this question into two parts: (1) what is the rela- tionship between religion and ethics (the philo- sophical study of morality), and (2) what is the relationship between religion and morality (beliefs about right and wrong)? The first question asks
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Does love require us to kill him or to refrain from killing him? other major religious rules of conduct are usually vague, laying out general principles that may be difficult to apply to specific cases. (Sec- ular moral codes have the same disadvantage.) For example, we may be commanded to love our neigh- bor, but
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If our terminally ill neighbor asks us in the name of love to help him kill himself, what should we do? other major religious rules of conduct are usually vague, laying out general principles that may be difficult to apply to specific cases. (Sec- ular moral codes have the same disadvantage.) For example, we may
How does love require us to behave toward the drug dealers, the gay couple, or the person who denounces our religion? other major religious rules of conduct are usually vague, laying out general principles that may be difficult to apply to specific cases. (Sec- ular moral codes have the same disadvantage.) For example, we may
what does loving our neighbor demand of us? other major religious rules of conduct are usually vague, laying out general principles that may be difficult to apply to specific cases. (Sec- ular moral codes have the same disadvantage.) For example, we may be commanded to love our neigh- bor, but what neighbors are included— people
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we may be commanded to love our neighbor, but what neighbors are included people of a different religion? other major religious rules of conduct are usually vague, laying out general principles that may be difficult to apply to specific cases. (Sec- ular moral codes have the same disadvantage.) For example, we may be commanded to