Morality: The Pre-existing And Universal Code

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can we as collective society discover what is right,
what is wrong, and what is best, therefore there exists not modern morality but
simply morality.

An empirical philosopher, W.T. Stace, argues that if we believe all
morals are culturally relative, it is impossible for us to judge what is best.
Although admitting he does not know what is best, he concludes that it is the
responsibility of man to discover what is. He does not dispute that moral
customs and moral ideas differ from country to country and from age to age, but
that the fact that one culture thinks something is right does not necessarily
make it right just as much as what we believe is wrong in our culture does not
necessarily mean it is wrong.

“The fact that the Greeks or the inhabitants of New Guinea think
something right does not make it right, even for them. Nor does the fact that
we think the same things wrong make them wrong. They are in themselves either
right or wrong. What we have to do is ...

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of God.

“There would be no point, for the naive believer in the faith, in the
philosopher's questions regarding the foundations of morality and the basis of
moral obligation... For the true believer the author of the moral law is God.
What pleases God, what God commands- that is the definition of right.”2

Our civilization today is deeply rooted in Christianity. The belief in
God is very popular within our society. As much as we may try to escape
Christianity, it still remains with us, “The moral ideas even of those who most
violently reject the dogmas of Christianity with their intellects are still
Christian ideas.”3 To believe or to accept the idea of one moral code, one ...

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