Thursday, January 9, 2014
Human Ethics
Human Ethics are completely taught. Our ethics are passed down through our parents and most people that come before us. Universal Ethics I believe are formed this way. All humans have a universal form of ethics. The reasoning for this is because many people all over the world can agree on events that are happening in the world. Many of us in the world can agree that the wars going on in the world today are pretty awful and without a cause anymore. How could any of us agree on this unless there was some universal guideline on ethics for us. Throughout history have believed in a universal way to teach people and there is a minority in the world that still have not agreed to these beliefs. Most people believe in compassion. Cultures and religions all have similar ethics compared to each other, many teach kindness and forgiveness and a life after death for the righteous and horrors for the damned.
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Good point mentioning religious similarities and the majority agreeing on the level of horror within the atrocity of war.
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting that you mentioned that ethics are passed down from parents, yet there is some universal ethical code that all agree to. How, then, do you account for differences in morality of different cultures? I like how you spoke of kindness and forgiveness -- it's nice to think that many people living today try to practice both, even despite the horrors of the alternate that you also mentioned, war, which seems to consume the news in the world and the minds of many.
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