REL-3170 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Applied Ethics, Meta-Ethics, Reciprocal Altruism
Document Summary
Marx: dialectical materialism - the material world is all that exists. Man makes religion, religion does not make man. People are after salvation and are trying to gure out how to get it. Durkheim: sacred v. profane - set apart &forbidden v. everyday, totemism - each clan has a sacred totem that can only be killed/used in particular rites, collective effervescence - your group identity subconsciously becomes god through rituals. Religion is a way of making your own group sacred; rituals and group dynamics create emotional power: immorality of community, not individuals. Haidt: social intuitionism, ethics isn"t primarily based on reasoning/actively rationalizing things, intuitions - ethical reasoning is a way to justify our immediate judgements, usually becomes we"re challenged. There is no free will: the nature of what is good is determined by what god is & does, there is no good that can judge god - god is good.
