Dirce Schuler Most everyone has a sense of what is right and wrong. Killing is wrong, helping others is right. Lying is wrong, telling the truth is right. But where does our sense of right and wrong come from, and is that source adequate? For years scientists, philosophers, and psychologists have sought out the answers to where we get our sense of right and wrong. The two main sources of our morality are biological (moral realism) and cultural influences (relativism) and those sources are usually an adequate means of determining right from wrong. We get our sense of morality from many places such as evolution, innate tendencies, family, media, religious beliefs, etc. Many people tend to view morality as black and white. During the
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Our morality is also shaped by culture. For example, in some cultures it is wrong to leave your shoes on when you enter a home and not in other cultures. Another example would be how some religions are strictly against issues such as gay marriage and others are not. Our culture has a great influence upon what we view as right and wrong and what people believe to be morally permissible is often a reflection of their parents, education, economic status, religion, and where they grew …show more content…
DCT’s foundation of morals is that a higher power (God(s)) determine our objective moral laws. This theory lacks evidence that scientific experiments and observations can provide for the biological and cultural explanations because it is largely faith based. Also the euthyphro problem validly points out how there is the question of whether God commands things because they are good or if things are good because God commands them. The former is a problem because that would mean that good exists independent of God and then there is still the question of what determines the good that God is commanding. The latter is a problem because hypothetically, God could change his mind whenever he wants about what is good, and suddenly, if he willed it, acts such as murder and rape could become morally permissible. Most of society as a whole would agree that that would not be acceptable. Therefore, DCT can be ruled out as a possible foundation of
Our morality is also shaped by culture. For example, in some cultures it is wrong to leave your shoes on when you enter a home and not in other cultures. Another example would be how some religions are strictly against issues such as gay marriage and others are not. Our culture has a great influence upon what we view as right and wrong and what people believe to be morally permissible is often a reflection of their parents, education, economic status, religion, and where they grew …show more content…
DCT’s foundation of morals is that a higher power (God(s)) determine our objective moral laws. This theory lacks evidence that scientific experiments and observations can provide for the biological and cultural explanations because it is largely faith based. Also the euthyphro problem validly points out how there is the question of whether God commands things because they are good or if things are good because God commands them. The former is a problem because that would mean that good exists independent of God and then there is still the question of what determines the good that God is commanding. The latter is a problem because hypothetically, God could change his mind whenever he wants about what is good, and suddenly, if he willed it, acts such as murder and rape could become morally permissible. Most of society as a whole would agree that that would not be acceptable. Therefore, DCT can be ruled out as a possible foundation of