ETHICS

Sources of
Authority
 Learning Objectives
At the end of the lesson the student will be able to:

● Identify kinds of laws;

● Distinguish each religion that people have and believed and;
● Apply their learning in the sources of authority in their institutions such as
law, religion and culture.
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LAW
the discipline and profession concerned
with the customs, practices, and rules of
conduct of a community that are
recognized as binding by the community.
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RELIGION
 RELIGION
"Love the Lord, Your God,
therefore, and always heed
his charge his statutes,
decrees, and
commandments.
 RELIGION
How about the problem of realizing that not
everyone is devout or maintains a religious
faith? Would we be compelled to admit then
that if religion is the basis of morality, some
people would simply have no moral code?
 EUTHYPHRO; PLATO
Euthyphro: - But I would certainly say that the holy is what all
the gods love, and that the opposite, what all the gods hate, is
unholy

SOCRATES: - Well, Euthyphro, should we examine this in turn

to see if it is true? Or should we let it go, accept it from
ourselves or anyone else without more ado, and agree that a
thing is so if only someone says it is? Or should we examine
what a person means when he says something?
EUTHYPHRO: - Of course. I believe, though, that this time what
I say is true
SOCRATES: - Perhaps we shall learn better, my friend. For
consider: is the holy loved by the gods because it is holy? Or
is it holy because it is loved by the gods?
 CULTURE
Our exposure to
different societies and
their cultures makes us
aware that there are
ways of thinking and
valuing that are
different from our
own,
 cultural relativism
we cannot say that any one
moral code is the right one but
is it a case of the presence of
disagreement means there are
no right or wrong
we realize that we are in
no position to render any
we realize that we are in kind of judgment on the
no position to render practices of another
judgment on the practices culture
of even our own culture, if
our culture was the basis
for determining right and
wrong
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