Religion
and Ethics:
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Religion
is an old concept and predominantly the action of human being is defined
through religion.
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It is defined through a theory called divine
command theory or theological voluntarism. It is believed that whatever the
religious scripture says had been said by god and whatever god says is ethical.
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Thereby according to this view, ethical action
is something which god prescribes and unethical which god restricts.
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Religious scriptures carry do’s and don’ts and
become the basis of ethical action but this theologians world consists of not
only theist/ atheist and also agnostic.
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World inhabited not only by individual of single
religion but multiple religion with progressive secularisation of society with
no. of atheist and agnostic are increasing in post modern era.
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By
this they are trying to ask that if someone does not believe in god. Does that
mean all their action is unethical?
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Theist is going to interact with atheist and
agnostic both.
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If
the interaction has to take place both has to believe in mutually agreed norms
with increasing secularisation of society, the interaction between the two
require mutually agreed norms which cannot be described through religious
scriptures.
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World is populated by people from different
beliefs and god cannot prescribed difference ideas for different people while
god is one.
Argument
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If god promotes killing, speaking lie, will
all these become ethical, our intuition knows that these are unethical. In this
context, we argue that ethics cannot be arbitrarily.
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Therefore
what god say is not ethical always (example. our behaviour towards females is
discriminating in some religion).
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So
ethics is autonomous somewhat of religion.
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Ethics
is not arbitrary and have independent identity. This view growing with
increasing secularism and cosmopolitanism of society.
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Therefore
religion alone cannot define ethics.
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