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Where do morals come from?

 
 
rex b
 
Reply Thu 22 Jun, 2006 12:23 pm
Some would say the bible, some would say other religious works. Where do you think morals come from?
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Brent cv
 
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Reply Thu 22 Jun, 2006 12:45 pm
@rex b,
It is def. based on some kind of religion
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jatuab
 
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Reply Thu 22 Jun, 2006 01:47 pm
@rex b,
God

not the Bible or religion

I believe that nonreligious people can be moral though, just as non-cowboys can wear cowboy hats.
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Curmudgeon
 
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Reply Thu 22 Jun, 2006 06:39 pm
@rex b,
Morality , though usually based on religious belief , does not require one to be religious . An atheist , or an agnostic , even an atavist can be moral .

"Morality deals with that which is regarded as right or wrong. The term is used in regard to three contexts: individual conscience, systems of principles and judgments, sometimes called moral values, shared within a cultural, religious, secular, Humanist, or philosophical community and codes of behavior or conduct derived from these systems.

In secular communities, lifestyle choices, which represent an individual's conception of the good life, are often discussed in terms of "morality". Individuals sometimes feel that making an appropriate lifestyle choice invokes a true morality, and that accepted codes of conduct within their chosen community are fundamentally moral, even when such codes deviate from more general social principles."

"Moral codes are often complex statements of right and wrong. Although some people might think that the moral code is simple, rarely is there anything simple about one's morals or ethics or for that matter judgment of others' morals. The difficulty lies in the fact that morals are often part of a religion and more often than not about culture codes."

Taken from Wikipedia
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jatuab
 
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Reply Thu 22 Jun, 2006 10:35 pm
@rex b,
It's easy to see that there are plenty of theories involving morality. Kant, Mill, Aristotle, Plato, and many others have created both religious and nonreligious systems of morality. Philosophy would teach you that there's only one certain truth about morality, but if you examine it closely, you discover that no philosopher ever really presents their information and claims it to be absolute truth. I guess that's the perplexing issue behind philosophy to begin with.
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Drnaline
 
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Reply Sun 25 Jun, 2006 11:37 am
@rex b,
To me morals come from civilization, religion is a definite part. But as some say, not needed. You parents are your first teachers on morals and your grounding for what you will see the world as. If they lack in judgement or standards that child is the direct result. Deviante or patriot to the cause.
Philosophy is speculative as where civilization as we know it is a fine example for a community effort. You have small secs that try and branch off what the unspoken majority view as moral. Civilizations majority people also tend to be religous based. But as was said, not needed by most philisophical mind sets. The only thing left is how your parents view and wish your world to be, provide they give a crap in the first place? If they do the world is your oyster. If they don't chances are you will be on welfare or perpetuating it's life. If you follow a moral example all your life, it is deemed a good life. But this is strictly humanitarianly speaking, IMO.
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ndjs
 
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Reply Mon 26 Jun, 2006 10:06 pm
@rex b,
I believe morality, or at least the ability to rationalize morality or lack there-of, is part of being human. Whether you wanna say this is from God or just a side effect of being the most intelligent life form on Earth is irrelevant. It's just another thing that we, as humans, have to deal with.
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