Religion and Morality

Religion and devotion1- Religion and ethical motive.Actually, to know the relationship among godliness and honorableity, we unavoidableness to define each.First of all, virtuouss has three principal definitions. At the first one, lessonity is the belief concerning what is honourable and what is im righteous that means also what is dear and what is wrong. In this definition, the descriptive usage, moralisticity is created from ordination, philosophy, morality and/or conscience. Also, we collect to know that the immoral natural do works here cause clear harm.At the second definition, normative and universal sense, morality refers to an ideal code of belief and conduct which would be favourite(a) by the sane moral person nonwithstanding under specified conditions (Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, 2002) that means the preference of the person plays an important swayer. If the action is preferred to be immoral, therefore, it is immoral and if the action is prefe rred to be moral, therefore, it is moral but of course under certain(a) circumstances. For example, it is common in several(prenominal) societies that eating with your own hand and grabbing the food is non acceptable, so it is in their baseball club immoral and that could mean that if flock give away you while eating interchangeable that, they will vacate unless you really stop doing it any more.At the last definition, morality is equal or sohow to ethical motive in which ethics is the study of morality philosophically and morality deals with determine which be studied by ethics. For exam, if you dont steal, therefore, this is moral or ethical action (the same) or we cig atomic number 18tte say you ar morally or ethically right.On the other hand, the definition of morality erect be a system of military man prospect which usually includes a set of narratives, symbols, beliefs, and practice that give subject matter to the practitioners experiences of life through ref erence to a higher power, deity, or ultimate truth (Geertz, 1982). Also, we target mention that the definition of religion can compargon from nation to others. For example, the religion for Muslims can mean the best agency to live the life, because Allah has sent all his massages which authentic by the prophets who make us understand what is dismissal on? and what be we? and other things. plainly for others, religion cannot be that thing which can be colligate to everything in the life. Also, others could relate the religion to afterwardlife.Somehow religion control behavior, for example, it is not ac familiarityed to listen to songs which clean-livingthorn influence someone too much with non multipurpose feelings much(prenominal) as too much of love (negative love), therefore, the person may isolate somehow and his productivity for the confederacy will be finished, but instead of that the religion will suggest the person to listen to songs that make believe him to d o something useful for the society.Many opinions were made and discussed through ancient time and modern time agree to many religions and religious scholars about the strong relationship between religion and morality. Some of them said that the religion including Allahs books (the religious books such as Quran, Bible, etc), the Teachings of the prophets, and the classification and details of the scholars who came after prophets are the resources of morality, in other words, we can say that every action are directed by religion and if there are some actions which are new, we can do a Measurement between those in the religious books and the new ones. But the question is why? And the answer comes from Muslims who say that the humankind and life and even everything in the world were/are/are being made by Allah who knows what is suitable for human themselves. For instance, cheating is prohibited in Islam concord to what prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) said the one who cheated is n ot from us. This example is a direct one. Another action like taking drugs, Muslims here depend on Measurement, therefore, the wrong and the right actions are studied cautiously for a suitable time and under specific conditions before we can say it is moral and immoral. And after all, Muslims found that the drugs are as same as wine, which is prohibited and mentioned in Quran, because of its bad effects on humankind, so the drugs are prohibited and it is immoral to bespeak it. (Well even though, sometimes some Muslims dont apply this values and standards).On the other hand, some philosophers said that the religion does not cover all things that are related to morality, in other words, morality here is not directed by religion, but the religion is a part of morality and we can say here that if you do something religiously or not, it is moral every way (Surely under conditions). So they believe that morality can act without religion. They believe that there are things that we can cha nge and create, so we as humans will put the standards for these things, For example, the animals right. The animals right is the idea that the near basic interests of animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of humans (Encyclopdia Britannica, 2007). Accordingly, the animals should be treated like human, for instance, they may keep up right to get a passport, so they can pass the borders with a authorization and also you can add to the animals right the rights for living, eating,. etc.2- Conventional and contemplative Moral Standards.Conventional moral standards are those which we get them from society and they did not change, they may not change, and they may be right or wrong. In other words, ceremonious moral standards are set of moral things in a society which have been thought to every person in that society. Also, we can define it in another(prenominal) way which is a concept of proper behaviour that reflects the values of a particular soc ial or political context, Distinguished from a moral understanding which is authoritative across space and time (Gumbertb, 2008). For example, in some societies the girl should stay virgin till she gets married, regardless the religion rules. So from the beginning, it is known that staying virgin for a girl is a must and that means if she breaks the rule, she will be punished (we are not going to discuss this issue because it is out of topic). subsequently this we can assume that staying virgin is right to do, so it is moral, and blade or remove virginity knowing that the girl have done something wrong is wrong to do, so it is immoral. On the other hand, it is not that big case in other societies. So, we can say that the conventional moral standards can be a behavior.Another example is that in some regions heap will not mention their moms names because they feel like it is not important and it may be sensitive although they will mention it if it necessary for the police man, for e xample. Accordingly, people start doing this thing especially when they face a stain or case.In 1985, Kohlberg who created the stages of moral development mentioned that conventional but in reasoning concept in which the self enters society by filling social roles. Individuals are receptive of approval or reproval from other people as it reflects societys accordance with the perceived role. They try to be a untroubled male child or good girl to live up to these expectations, having learned that there is inherent value in doing so. ( We are not going to discuss it because it has psychological reasons) is really exists and everyone in the society should apply it.For instance, people in GCC countries are so generous, so all next generation are also generous. So we can assume that the generous has developed to be a common behavior in that society and who does not admit it and do it will damage his/ her fame among people, therefore, it is moral to be generous, and it is immoral to be not generous (stingy).Also, we have to mention that we have like a common related world conventional moral standards. Actually, these standards appeared because of the ease of communication between two or more societies or groups of people in such a way the behavior or action that are traditionally being use in societies may transfer to others. For example, when I was searching in Google months ago, I spy that Spanish people write ( gagagaga ) when they laughing instead of ( hahahahahaha or lol ) which are commonly used, and back then I discovered also that some guys are using it without knowing that. Actually, I was surprised because it is too fast (I mean how can?). So, the media are playing important role in delivering not only behavior but also almost everything.Reflective moral standards can be those in which the person does them because he knows that they may cause damage to another person, in other words, the person will not do things that distraint others because he think s about others rights. For example, if the teacher of an high school class gives the all student the same tag like B+ the weak student will not complain, but the good student will definitely complain because he has been harmed and also it is not fear, therefore, the teacher should assure that it does not hurt good students, and he should stop doing such an action. So, we can say that if you are going to harm, stop acting, but if you are going to benefit, dont stop because harming is immoral and benefiting is moral.Another example is that a government will not allow oil companies to drop their fragment oil in the sea because it may hurt the fishing process in which fishermen fish fishes from water and in order to not harm the environment.Indeed, many killing cases were happed because of fault the reflective moral standards, one case in which one high school boy killed another one. The police men were asking him but it was useless. hence they went to that high school to investigate. They discovered that all students who were friends to the grampus said that he has been kicked after the school was finished since he entered the school by group of students. Then the investigators assume that the group of students which kicked him helped him to develop hate, and this hate was huge enough to let him kill one of them. After that the police men closed the case without imprison the killer, yet they gave him psychological appointments and tests in the hospital.Actually, Conventional and Reflective moral standards are related so much in such way they are useful for us to find the moral standards. Basically, we mean that the moral standards are gathered from what we can called it society standards convinced(p) the standards in which we do not harm anyone.Also, we can add that the somehow the conventional and reflective moral standards are not same. Conventional standards are discuss things that are inherited from the society and related to human behavior, but Reflectiv e standards are related to the relationship between the person and either individual or group of people. Accordingly, we can do everything that is right, yet we do not stop others rights.3- professed(prenominal) ethics and MoralityMorals and the expression, moral values are generally associated with a personal view of values. Personal ethics tend to reflect beliefs relating to sex, drinking, gambling, etc. They can reflect the influence of religion, culture, family and friends (Lichtman, 1995). That means morality is carrying the rule in which we should follow. For example, when we say dont smoke, dont cheat, or dont harm people, we expect anyone to say that it is a rule that we should apply. Also, we can say that the rule like dont cheat because it is wrong for many reasons like..etc or drive slow because it is right for certain reasons, so many people know them as dos and donts or what is right to do and what is wrong to not do. For instance, when we go to a public place like ma ll, we should not smoke because it is wrong to do in such place. Also, the morality is influenced by a lot of things such as culture, religion, behaviour, traditions etc. So we can find that morality is giving us the rules in which we should apply.On the other hand, Professional ethics are slightly different from Morality. Professional ethics concerns the moral issues that arise because of the specialist knowledge that professionals attain, and how the use of this knowledge should be governed when providing a service to the public (Chadwick, 1998 ). That means how the moral issues, values, and standards are used and it gives the explanations about the cases under certain circumstances. In other words, the right action is right this what morality is carrying but the reasons, situations, and circumstances are discussed in a certain professions ethics. For example, what is right in business may not be right in teaching. Also we can add that the wrong action is decided in the same way. Therefore, we have ethics in each profession. So we can find that professions play an important rule to connect morality and professions.In fact, the morality has an integrative relationship with professional ethics and it is tough to distinguish between them even when we write their definitions. Actually, morality provide us with rules that comes from many resources and then professional ethics take these rules and change, explain, or edit them, checkly, ethics have many types according to professions. For instance, in our university it is not allowed to cheat according to the AIP (Academic Integrity Policy) and knowing that cheating is prohibited as a moral standard we can see how the moral standard is acting like professional ethics which is the teaching ethics here. So applying the ethics can lead us to achieve the moral standard in our university.Another example is that a new company want to make a rule list for its workers. They would look at the moral standards, and then the y will create or fabricate the rules in such a way it will be suitable for workers, and also it will not harm anyone unless he/she harms the company. In other words, we can find that the company uses the moral values to create its own ethics which is the companys ethics.On the other hand, people use morality as well as ethics in which they have the same meaning or they are equal to each other. 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