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Che Nable 4 attributes of God:

- Omnipotent (all-powerful)
- Omniscient (all-knowing)
Session 1: MORALITY vs ETHICS vs - Omnipresent (present everywhere,
RELIGION at every time)
January 24, 2023 - Omnibenevolent (all-loving)

“If a kingdom is divided in itself, it will not If God is perfect, He therefore could not
stand.” possess human traits (like jealousy, anger)

Etymological definitions Session 2: The Bible

MORALITY January 26, 2023
- Comes from the Latin word Mos
(custom or habit - meaning usually What the Bible really is
or regularly done) - a record of salvation history
ETHICS - Words of God in the words of man
- Comes from the Greek word Ethos - covenant between the Olrd and New
RELIGION Testament
- Latin religare (“bind back”) - Zakar (Hebrew term), a memory of
God’s people
Morality
- Personal and normative Bible must be read not verbatim but through
- Subjective its context — when and where it was written
- Redefined as goodness or evilness
of an act When God decided to create the…
Ethics
- Guiding principles of society’s He created man in his own image and
behavior likeness
- May also be subjective - freedom: the capacity to choose
- Rightness and wrongness of an act - will: the capcity to decide
- May be parallel to lawfulness It is our will that pushes us to choose.
(rightness) and unlawfulness - intellect: the capacity to think
(wrongness) - immortal soul: a soul that is timeless,
unending
Religion is clamoring for universality in Freedom, will, and intellect are embedded in
morality. the soul. Therefore the soul is the one being
judged.
The Moral Norm
Principles of Morality
The Philosophy of the Human Person Utilitarianism
The Beginning - Genesis - result-based
- Jeremy Benthan
Some stories in the Bible such as the - The greatest good for the greatest
creation story may seem illogical. number of people
 - Ex. Better to kill one in order to save - Answers the question
five “what action is done
- Saya that human beings are slaves in the situation?”
of pain and pleasure - Intention
Immanuel Khant - Answer the question
- Human dignity “why did the doer do
- Ex. You can never equate a human the act?”
being to other things using numbers - Circumstances
- Answers the
The Nature of Man and his Dignity questions “who,
when, and where is
“How can we distinguish an act to be good the situation
or bad?” happening?
4 Classifications of the question: - Principle: The end does not justify
1. The Divine Law (whether it follows the means.
the 10 Commandments or not - Find the answer: removing a
determines its goodness or cancerous uterus to a pregnant
badness) woman. Save the mother or the
2. Natural Law baby?
3. Human Law (man-made law, - Impediments for Human Acts:
expressed by the human - Ignorance
government) - Ignorance of the law
4. Motives excuses no one
because we are
Will and freedom will always follow the rational beings.
intellect. - Passion
- Drive to achieving
The Universal Moral Law something drives us
- “Do good and avoid evil.” to do an act even if it
- The ends do not define the means. is evil
- Habit
Acts of Man - Something done
regularly
Human Acts - Ex. Cursing, saying
- thoughts, actions, speech bad words
- are different from animal acts - Fear
because man by nature acts toward - We opt not to do a
an end specific action
- the morality of human acts depend because of fear
on Moral Determinants of Human (Jeremy Benthan)
Acts (Modifiers of Human
Culpability/Responsibility): Examples:
- Object chosen / object of the 1. Looking - act of man
act 2. Seeing - human act
 3. Dreaming - act of man
4. Daydreaming - human act
5. Loving - human act
6. Hearing - act of man
7. Listening - human act
8. Feeling hungry - act of man
9. Eating - human act
10. Being tempted - act of man
11. Stealing - human act

Human acts are subject to morality due to it

being done freely.

2 kinds of good:
- Apparent good
- Misguided reason
- Real good