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What has this to do with ethics? Discuss.
posted by John and Mag @ 8:54 AM
Thursday, February 16, 2006
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9 Comments:
I also know that Charlie has a remarkable ability to tell time without even looking at the clock!
He starts barking every afternoon at 5:45 if we don't feed him then. So what do ya' think of that? Wooed
Great! Finally the evidence is in! Your 7th grade math teacher (can't remember the name) was never a baby!
Actually, fascinating story. Especially since your prospective (expected) nephew is being ushered into this world by his math-based daddy.
KHB
Charlie barks at the same time every day? I'd say his IQ is way past babies AND monkeys!
SLB
Okay class, back to the original question--what has the article to do with ethics? Not necessarily Christian ethics, but the concept of the human as a moral decision maker.
Now, discuss.
Okay, okay - back to class. Just because Charlie's not a Christian doesn't mean he can't make sound moral decisions. Again, he seems to score ahead of the humans. (Reference your 7th grade math teacher.)
SLB
Would the connection possibly be that man is born with the motivation and natural ability to reason internally (including moral judgements)upon receiving a set of data. Therefore man is constantly making moral judgements whether he realizes he is or not. He can't 'hep it', he's internally wired by God to do so. Even if a person doesn't believe in or consciously respond to God, he responds using some set of 'morals' from his own worldview. -Wooed
Yes, now we're getting back on track. I'm interested in this because it relates to the part of my dissertation that I'm currently working on (and the whole of the dissertation for that matter).
If I had the inclination, I would write out a full length lecture on what is called "naturalism" and how it relates to ethics. The gist of it is that some argue that there are objective facts and principles which exist indepedently of our beliefs and interpretations that constitute what we commonly call "morality."
Suffice it to say that it's not that different from the article's suggestion that we somehow just know things about math, through intuition. If that's the case, why can't we just somehow intuit moral rightness and wrongness?
Anyway, it's always great joy to find articles that mildly relate to whatever one is reading at the moment.
Maybe it's too hard to intuit these things bacause there are too many variables in any given situation for our limited minds to deal with. Maybe it's because Christ's 'law' of acting out of love makes some things right in one situation but not in another. ie, it was okay to heal on the Sabbath bec. he acted out of love. -Wooed but Confoosed
Good questions, Suz. Like you, I'm confoosed too.
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