Sep. 8th
- Western concepts of ethics have much of their roots in Aristotle's ideas about moral excellence
- Ethics and morals are processes of systematizing what is right and what is wrong
- In modern philosophy, often ethics are seen as secular while morals are seen as religious in origin
- Churchy people tend to get worried about trends of moral relativism that they see in society
- Situational ethics is based on the idea that love should be at the core of our morals, but its founder may not have defined what is love (baby don't hurt me) explicitly enough
- The four main tenets of situational ethics are pragmatism, relativism, positivism, and personalism
- Taking a long time to observe a subject will help you find details that it would be easy to skim over
- Ethics are difficult enough to define that it takes a lot of observation and thought to come to reasonable conclusions about what is ethical
- We may not have knowledge about what kind of stuff we don't know, so we need to be careful not to think we know everything
- Just because a law is on the books doesn't mean that it's ethical
- Some people's moral ideas are founded on the idea of a devil and a God who will help you overcome that devil's temptations and other difficulties
- David Bednar has gotten the impression that people mainly leave the LDS church because they have been offended by someone.
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