Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: jackbob

Please respond when you can, no rush. It is a coincidence that lately I was quick with my responses.

Traditional source of ethics is religion and religious people derive their ethics from that single source; I am one of them. Of course, there is some latitude in the interpretation of Christian ethics, and I would imagine a similar latitude exists in other religions.

On occasion, a philosophical system replaces religion. Marxists for example derive their ethics from the perceived needs of the working class.

I don't think eclectic personal ethics are all that common.


257 posted on 04/01/2005 1:14:14 PM PST by annalex
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 256 | View Replies ]


To: annalex
I do not agree that the traditional source of ethics is religion, at least not in America. Nor do I agree that most American religious people derive their ethics from any single source.

I also say that various philosophical, social, and professional systems of ethics have always existed side by side with religious systems of ethics, except where religion outlawed such systems, and of course where such systems in effect outlawed religion. Equally, I do not agree that most Marxists derive their ethics from any perceived needs of the working class.

And finally, I say that "eclectic personal ethics" are not only the most common, but are almost unanimous source for ethics in America today, yesterday and all the way back to our countries founding.

259 posted on 04/01/2005 11:01:32 PM PST by jackbob
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 257 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson