Morality and Religion

griffin

Phil-305

9/13/2016

Professor: Lucas Mather

Morality and religion in the eyes of Dennis Prager, William Shaw and Vincent Barry

As I watched the videos of Dennis Prager I notice that he took morality and religion very seriously. He goes on to explain what ethical monotheism is. He states that monotheism Is one god so that is religion and he explains that ethical is the source of ethics/morality. He explained morality as “an objective code of right and wrong that does not emanate from human opinion it emanates from god therefore transcends human opinion”.

He also says there is another meaning to ethical monotheism and that is “what god most wants from us is that we treat other human beings morally”. Prager explains that morality is the bases of religion. It’s the bases of religion because god is stating in the ten commandments that he wants you as a human being to treat another human being morally.

Prager also explains the difference between moral and immoral killing and how the king James bible says do not kill but what it really is supposed to say is do not murder. He explains that “moral killing most obviously when done in self-defense against an aggressor and there is immoral killing and the word for that is murder”. So murder is morally wrong but killing is not morally wrong because you can kill an animal and still be morally right.

In our book moral issues in business by William Shaw and Vincent Barry they say that “an action that is legal can be morally wrong”. Which makes me think of the statement that Prager said. That killing is morally ok because the 6th commandment really means do not murder. It seemed to me that Barry and Shaw where kind of against religion being a port of morality. They seemed to look at it in a more technical way instead of a spiritual/religious way like Prager did.

I believe they disagreed on a couple different things. When it came the Barry and Shaw I feel that they focused on the law aspect of morality...