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Morality as Law
Morality as Love
Morality as Law
Morality is something external Associated with authority figure
Persons role is seen in terms of duty or obedience (obedience is the fundamental value) obedience may often become blind subservience particularly in culture of hierarchy and uniformity
Sanctions: Obedience Disobedience = = REWARD PUNISHMENT
Guilt?
Words like integrity and authenticity are appropriate to describe what it means to be moral or not
We describe the outcome of the moral behavior in terms of inner peace versus inner disquiet
This way of seeing things is represented by the language of virtue and vices Virtues and Vices (moral habits) are the good and bad dispositions or qualities that result from our actions
This perspective allows us to speak of change in the person, be it development or regression. This also speaks of the language of moral conversion. It gives us the dynamics of challenge and change, of what it is like for people to try to change for the better.
Morality as Love
Speak of what happens to a relationship
Idea that we are primarily relational beings
Being moral is a matter of being faithful to the fact of our interrelatedness and to the demands of relationship
It is about going beyond ourselves, transcending our own egoism and egoistic horizon
Being moral is about being personally affected by suffering and injustice and being motivated to do what one can in response Outcomes of morality could be described in terms of social peace versus division.
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SANCTIONS
Morality as Law (Duty, Obedience) Morality as Inner Conviction (Conscience, Integrity) Morality as Personal Growth (Virtue, Conversion) Morality as Love (Faithfulness, Response)
Search for personal fulfillment that has little reference to others Situation Ethics, a theory which holds that morality has only one absolute, namely to do the loving thing Commitment to justice is distorted if seen in isolation