Religious Studies 1023E Lecture Notes - Hermeneutics, World View, Crisis Management

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Humans as rational creatures- able to use reason/goodness. Conventional law- a legal statement/law enacted by government. , human created law. Natural law- something nature defines for us, value based. Role of philosophy- state and rationally defend what morally should be. Modern social context- the individual and dualistic public-private society. Ancient world, what you did and your ethics were one and the same-you talked about it. Morality is complex set of principles based upon, religious, philosophical, social concepts we base our rights and wrong. Descriptive- the is the whole that we are discovered through being self conscious. Judging of our behaviour according to some set of pronounced norms and values. Prod to get us to conform our behavour to the norms and values we profess. We must reflect upon the consistency in the multiplicity of values we hold and norms we profess. Certain values and norms are simply inconsistent with other norms and values example:

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