Philosophy

Philosophy Priest and ministers make up panels that handle moral issues. People feel that they have the upper hand in knowledge when it comes to morality. Most hospitals have an ethics committee, which include healthcare professionals, lawyers, and religious representatives. The reason why priest and ministers are thought of in this way is not because they are wiser; it is because they have better and deeper reasoning with morality than most people. The Divine Command Theory is what most religious people look at as to tell what is right and wrong. If God commands it then it is considered morally right, and if God forbids something then it is morally wrong. Four hundred years before Jesus was born Plato wrote Euthyphro, and in this passage he wrote that right could be seen as what the gods command. Socrates basically says back that if it is right because the gods command it, or do they command it because it is right. There are two things that all of this might mean. First, we might say “right conduct is right because God commands it.” This statement can lead to trouble. God could have given us different commands easily. He could have told us right, wrong, god, because, theory, command, commands, people, moral, abortion, thought, things, says, religious, question, natural, morally, just, even, church, believe, argument, about, wrote, world, whether, truth, telling, something, secondly, scriptures, scripture, say, problems, priest, part