As I have stated, the linguistic analogy does not deny cultural variation. Rather, it predicts certain universals concerning the permissibility of harming and helping others, while providing constraints on the range of cultural variation. Thus, in no culture is killing always wrong or helping ...
Morality and religion have a long-intertwined history, and many people believe that religion is necessary for good morals. However, modern research suggests this is likely not the case.
People may argue objective morality by explaining that people across the world share common morals despite culture. However, subjective morality explains that individual morality differs for each person, and the majority group does not represent the minority. ...
perhaps from what ‘is’ natural or the product of evolutionary processes[20]. Since the proposed universal moral principle makes no claim for innate bindingness (what we somehow ‘ought’ to do), it does not commit the naturalistic fallacy...
Morality, the moral beliefs and practices of a culture, community, or religion or a code or system of moral rules, principles, or values. The conceptual foundations and rational consistency of such standards are the subject matter of the philosophical di
The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere. —Friedrich Nietzsche 116 When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Co...
From Penrose’s claims we can only conclude that consciousness is not actually conscious; the observer is utterly irrelevant because he does notactually perceive anything…that is, he does not actuallythink. Which means that you are not really you; I am not really me. All human existence and...
Otherwise morality is merely one person's choice or feeling, not an understanding of truth; and (5) the existence of religion. People recognize a moral aspect to the worship of deity; even if the deity does not exist, we still perceive a need for morality to be decreed by Someone 3589 ...
"The Church," he wrote in Redemptor Hominis [1979], "which has no weapons at her disposal apart from those of the Spirit, of the Word and of love, cannot renounce her proclamation of 'the word in season and out of season.' For this reason she does not cease to implore everybody in...
that limit excessiveness in our behavior, is the foundation of all government, religion. It moderates our beliefs and laws; describes how one should act. Moral rules, if you will, include several basic so called 'golden' rules: thou shalt not kill; ...