PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pessimism, Determinism, The Selfish Gene
3 Sep 2020
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Many people rely on religious standards of living. When religious devotion was waning in the 19th century, dostoevsky stated that if god is dead, everything is permitted ( lawgiver gone, so no law?) The old testament includes some very (by today"s standards) unmoral suggestions (see p. 11- 12), but the new testament also has the pitfall of relying on a scapegoat for atonement of sin. & is riddled with hypocrisy: nietzsche as one of the harshest critics of the moral climate fostered by christianity. Assessment of the moral standards of religious texts. Enabled by us taking a step back from the texts. Origin of ethics: religion? (argument against this provided by plato) Opposes the idea that that which is holy is loved by the gods because it is good/ right, as the. It has been used to portray good, but also bad morals (e. g. god punishing the desire for knowledge)
