Morality; The Pre-existing And Universal Code

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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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the reference 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 ...

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