Seven Threats to Ethics
OR
Barriers to Ethical Thinking
We
ought to think about standards of choice and conduct. We need to
engage in discourse on justice, equality, freedom, rights etc. There
are certain ideas that make us cynical and self-conscious as we approach these
ethical issues. These ideas destabilize us, and stand as barriers to
Ethical thinking. They are:
1. The Death of
God,
2. Relativism,
3. Egoism,
4. Evolutionary
Theory,
5. Determinism
and Futility
6. Unreasonable
Demands, and,
7. False
Consciousness
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The
Death of God
Ethics,
for many, is based on religion. God is the source of good. God
is the centre around which the world of Ethics is built. For every
ethical issue an individual has God or Holy Scriptures to refer to as moral
authority. But when the existence of God is questioned or disproved
then there arise chaos.
Scientific discoveries in general and the theory of evolution in particular have shaken people's belief in God. The thought that there is no God is one of the threats or barriers to Ethical Thinking. When the centre, that holds everything together, is destroyed there comes a situation where anything and everything can be right or wrong, which in turn makes the act of critical thinking