Today's class about morality and ethics reminded me of this lovely picture that I saw on a great website called iwastesomuchtime.com Usually this website is full of silly pictures and entertaining videos, but this picture really made me think. I had to read it a couple of times in order to fully understand what it was trying to say. So what a coincidence that I found this last night, and today in class we learned about morality, religion, and ethics in reference to Avraham and the famous akeda.
According to Soren Kierkegaard and this theory Teleological Suspension of the Ethical, this was the ultimate test in order to show what was the driving force behind Avraham's beliefs and actions. Was he a moral and ethical person because of the actual morality or because God said so?
This made me start thinking where the idea of ethics and morality even came from? Did people have the idea of ethics and morality before Avraham came around? If Avraham introduced the idea of ethical monotheism and he was the one to find God, doesn't that in itself prove that ethics and morality stemmed from the idea of God (and/or religion)?
Now the picture. I want to know what yall think of it! Honestly I'm not sure myself what I think of it. Comment away!
Sade!This is a really interesting picture. I think this image is very much against religion trying to show that people can be good and moral people regardless of the religion. They are trying to say that they do not need religion and that people who have religion simply follow what "someone" said, while the people with morality, do what is right. They do not see the following problems with this:
ReplyDelete1. As you so nicly pointed out, there is a high chance that morality stemed from God. Therefore, the whole reason why people are moral and brought up that way is because of religion and God
2.What is it to be moral? There is a different definition of what is normal for everyone , one can say that he thinks he is doing the right thing, even though it really is not moral. An example of this would be saving someones life by stealing medicine for them since they cannot afford it. This might seem to be the right thing to do, but it is not moral.