Contemporary Moral Problem:

Submitted to: Mr. Paul Pajo

Submitted By: Mr. Lex Eugene Peregrino

By: John Arthur

According to Arthur how are Morality and Religion different?

 For John Arthur, this two are different in different way or different perspective. Morality for him is tending to estimate whether the person is good or bad. This is the action of other people that is producing and realizing the guilt of a person. Meaning the morality is basically the act of the person which realizes if its good or bad human act. While in Religion it involves different action, like having a god, praying, faith, and other ritual.

Why isn’t religion necessary for moral motivation?

Because religion says the morality and how it is perform but in the long run even the religion motivates the person to do good things and not to do bad things in the end the person who hold the decision will win so that the morality of a person is not in the religion according to the sayings although the religion can lessen the act of bad things but it is not purely 100% that if you have religion you will act as a good person. But the other interpret the religion is make other people to perform the true morality of a person because many sayings in the religion can affect the human for their action, many things that will motivate their conscience to do good things so that in religion it is necessary for moral motivation its lessen the act of doing bad things and make other abominable thing. 

Why isn’t religion necessary as a source of moral knowledge?

            In the chapter of the book this is one of the topics that the religion is open for the people who think that religion is good for morality that will affect them. But people need to focus more in their moral attitude and their act of doing things that will gain knowledge not to other people beliefs.  This will show that morality is guided by religion and the knowledge of religion will lead you to know the deeper insight of morality.  

What is divine command theory? Why does Arthur reject this theory?

Divine Command Theory is “claim that something is right because God will it. It is shows that morally right are determined by the will of the single supreme deity (or, in a polytheistic religion, the agreement of all the gods).” But in the chapter it shows that this means that God has the same relation to the different morality law. Arthurs reject this theory because this theory says that everything that the God said or commanded by god are correct.

According to Arthur, how are morality and religion connected?

According to the chapter this two has their own meaning and not connected to each other, but these two can influence each other because of the belief and other sayings. Because some thought in the religion can affect the morality of one person.

Dewey says that morality is social, what does this mean according to Arthur?

 Arthurs has many different meaning in morality is social, it means that morality has different language to understand by a person which we think what we fit from us and what should we go after. Morality is social also is showing that we are connected to each other, that we are responsible for other people and vice versa because it includes that relationship with our love one. Many different ideologies that comes on us that show different view point in moral is social we respond on what is the most important option we apply.