Handouts: None given
Reminders:
- Service Project: The 10 hours, 2 forms, and 1 essay are due on Apr 23, 2017
- Book Report: Due Monday, Nov. 14 (report on TurnItIn.com; Art Project @ start of class)
Journal 4-2: Study Packet (page 12) & Student Workbook (page 82)
- Pick up your Student Workbook pages from the front
- - Read the article section entitled, “Who’s to Say What’s Right?” (page 82)
- On page 12 of your Study Packet, answer these:
- - 1) List the first 3-word phrase that is defined
- - - In your own words, define it & then give an example of it
- - 2) List the second 3-word phrase that is defined
- - - In your own words, define it & then give an example of it
- - 3) In 3+ sentences, explain why it can be dangerous to decide your ethics/morals in either of these two ways.
Reviewing Yesterday's Notes: We paused here & reviewed things from yesterday, using this picture as a resource.
Moral Relativism: Study Packet, Page 2
- Defined: The belief that ethical standards change according to the situation, individual preferences, and/or society.
- - Also called: Situational Ethics
- - This belief causes our ethical decisions to ultimately be based on what we, personally, feel is right.
- The theology view that goes w/this ethical view is:
- - The foundation of Pantheist & Atheist worldview on ethics
- The philosophical view that goes w/this ethical view:
- - Relative Truth: The belief that truth is dependent on another thing
- - Truth isn't always true,
- - Truth can change based upon such things as the situation, society, or individual
Where Moral Relativism Leads: Student Workbook, Page 82-83 & Study packet, Pages 1-3
- ¶1: What groups usually believe in some form of M.R.?
- ¶2: The human heart is… what?!?
- - Study Packet, Page 3: Bottom Right
- - - Jer. 17:9) We don't ultimately trust 'our heart' for ethics because sin has made our hearts a desperately sick & deceitful thing—Therefore, we trust what God says! days
-¶2: If, outside of humanity, there is no standard for right and wrong—then what is every ethical decision based on?
- - Study Packet: Page 2 & Short Answer 2 (pg 1): Two Problems w/this belief: Moral Relativism
- - - 1) Our feelings are unstable & lack perspective
- - - - How are feelings unstable?
- - - - How do feelings lack perspective?
- ¶3: Morals boil down to… what? How can we settle differences?
- - - 2) Using feelings as our moral guide will lead to confusion or a 'might makes right' perspective.
- - - - How could it lead to confusion?
- - - - What is the ‘Might makes Right’ view?
- ¶4: A God would provide a definitive authority for deciding right/wrong.
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