ME AND MORALITY?
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True False
How we grow to understand our being moral?
What are our challenges as moral person?
5 Ways of Looking at Morality
Morality as Social Transformation
Morality as Law
Morality as Love
Morality as Inner Conviction
Morality as Personal Growth
Reference: What is Morality? By; Donal Harrington
Morality as Law
Morality is something external Associated with authority figure
Persons role is seen in terms of duty or obedience (obedience is the fundamental value) obedience may often become blind subservience particularly in culture of hierarchy and uniformity
Sanctions: Obedience Disobedience = = REWARD PUNISHMENT
Morality as Inner Conviction
Morality has been internalized When we think out right and wrong for Peace of ourselves, then mind? we make the law our own
Arises from within, not simply an imposition by some authority demanding obedience but is a requirement arising from persons conviction
Inner law is our conscience
Guilt?
Words like integrity and authenticity are appropriate to describe what it means to be moral or not
We describe the outcome of the moral behavior in terms of inner peace versus inner disquiet
Morality as Personal Growth
Attention shifts to what is happening the person as a result of the action
Ex. A person telling lies becomes a liar or dishonest
This way of seeing things is represented by the language of virtue and vices Virtues and Vices (moral habits) are the good and bad dispositions or qualities that result from our actions
This perspective allows us to speak of change in the person, be it development or regression. This also speaks of the language of moral conversion. It gives us the dynamics of challenge and change, of what it is like for people to try to change for the better.
In this view we can speak of the contrast of wholeness and fragmentation
Morality as Love
Speak of what happens to a relationship
Idea that we are primarily relational beings
Being moral is a matter of being faithful to the fact of our interrelatedness and to the demands of relationship
It is about going beyond ourselves, transcending our own egoism and egoistic horizon
Outcome of being moral is expressed in terms of communion versus isolation
Morality as Social Transformation
Morality as relationship but goes out beyond the small world of interpersonal relationships to the larger world that is the society Justice and Solidarity are words that stand for this perspective
Being moral is about being personally affected by suffering and injustice and being motivated to do what one can in response Outcomes of morality could be described in terms of social peace versus division.
PERSPECTIVES
SANCTIONS
Failure of Integration Legalism Subjectivism
Morality as Law (Duty, Obedience) Morality as Inner Conviction (Conscience, Integrity) Morality as Personal Growth (Virtue, Conversion) Morality as Love (Faithfulness, Response)
Reward versus Punishment Inner Peace versus Disquiet (Guilt)
Wholeness versus Fragmentation
Search for personal fulfillment that has little reference to others Situation Ethics, a theory which holds that morality has only one absolute, namely to do the loving thing Commitment to justice is distorted if seen in isolation
Communion versus Isolation
Morality as Social Transformation Justice, Solidarity
Social Peace versus Division
