John Arthur: Religion, Morality, Conscience

What I expect to learn:

                To know much better of the topic through giving of examples

                To know what are the essence of the three

                To know how each term affects our daily life

Quote:

                “God does what He please”

Review:

                This particular chapter is contributed by John Arthur, a professor of philosophy at Binghampton University. With his contributes, Religion, Morality, Conscience, he divided his statements into three thoughts. Firstly, he mentioned how religion affects our daily life and how it affects every activity we’re doing. In the first part of his statement, he mentioned that “religion is therefore said to be a necessary in that it provides motivation to do right thing”, which is absolutely true. Though our religion, we have, “walls” to lean on and religion serve as an “ear” for us to approach and share our dilemmas to work on. Through religion, we are being familiarized to know how to capture the “divine intervention”. The next topic he stated is the “divine command theory”. In this part of the reading, it mentioned and emphasized to us that God is should our center of concerns. “God’s first before anything else”.  According to the topic, “without God’s commands there would be no moral rules” which means that we should be aware of Him and we should follow sincerely his commands because “God rewards those who follow his commands” . Next topic is the morality. Morality is the quality of being in accord with standards of right or good conduct or a system of ideas that fall into those same categories. 

                So to conclude this chapter, I gathered all of the thoughts in just one word, “God”. Specifically, this part of the chapter is focus on religion, right things to do and especially with God.

What I’ve learned:

·         I’ve learned what are the difference of the three

·         God’s first before anything else

·         Religion motivates

Integrative Questions:

·         What is the essence of religion?

·         Why we should have “divine intervention”?

·         How morality and religious different?

Reference

http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/definition-of-morality-faq.htm