Christian Moral Reasoning

Reflection is telling us the operation of mind such as includes perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing.

These individuals are known to be experts of morality. The chapter proposes two reasons as to why these individuals are called upon so frequently. One, for those who believe and have some sort of religious back round, and second, for those who believe in what is called a “scientific view” of the world. This chapter presents the idea that there is some popular belief that religion and morality go hand in hand and that in order to understand morality, you must understand religion. It is explained that when we view morality from a religious perspective, we give meaning to morality in a way that a “good man” made this world that we currently live in and that we are his children. While the book proposes the question that people who believe in God, or a higher power, base their values on what those religions state is right or wrong, whereas for an atheist the question still remains; how do these individuals weigh their moral compass and place their values?

Every day we are faced with certain situations that challenge us with how to act in an ethical manner. It can be human nature to feel unsure or conflicted with the correct moral choice. Some can say that one should know how to handle such dilemmas and others may say that there should be a reference of some sort to help guide through such conflicts. Sometimes we know the answers and sometimes we are unsure of how to handle certain situations. Most times we go through life wondering what we should do. As I become further educated on the different theories of ethics, I believe there are answers that are available in guiding one through an ethical dilemma and or judgment. I will discuss Vincent Ruggiero’s three basic criteria, Robert Kegan’s order of consciousness, the three schools of ethics and the correlation between all three.

Reflection on best practice helps me think about my own efforts and successes or achievements. Reflection is a critical thinking strategy in which I review and analyse my work, making connections between what I have learnt and my efforts.

As we bring our upbringing, faith commitment, past experience and reflections to bear on everything we do, we now stand back and go to the sources that for Christians should provide the moral insight needed to proceed: (1) Scripture; (2) Tradition; (3) Reason; and (4) Experience. As it is generally believed today that the canon of Scripture was put together through a sincere act of discernment by the Christian community and that it is truly the coming together of the human and the divine, we begin our investigation with Scripture. We will then look at the remaining three: tradition; reason; and experience in light of Scripture.

The book starts to build up the framework for resolving right versus right based off of Aristotle’s view of sleep ethics. Sleep ethics relies on “insights, feelings, and instincts” (Badaracco, 42) to solve moral dilemma and is also known as ethics intuition. Aristotle highly view intuition because it is “more reliable in deliberation than detached intellectual judgments” (Badaracco, 52) and that it “could penetrate to the essence of the issue” (Badaracco, 52). Aristotle’s sleep ethics supplements criteria to denounce me-ism and support development of ethical character. He purposefully made the criteria vague for people “to reflect on who they are and what they hope to become, to feel and act on what they cares the most deeply about, to make commitments and try to live by them” (Badaracco,

This essay examines the relationship between the Divine Command Theory of morality, and moral questions posed by Socrates in the Euthyphro Dilemma. The Euthyphro Dilemma is often used to challenge the Divine Command Theory’s position on moral acts. However, this essay will show that challenge is without basis, as acts of morality are neither inherently good nor are they good because of some independent action initiated by God. Rather, moral acts are good because they emanate from the nature of God as a reflection of who He is.

Reflective equilibrium (RE) is process by which we might find coherence of beliefs, usually in ethics. If one is making a judgement regarding an ethical decision (i.e., whether that decision is right or wrong), they might weigh the possible answers against prior beliefs about ethics. For instance, if someone is deciding whether factory farming is wrong or not, they might look at why they think other things are wrong. A possible example: “I think racism and sexism are wrong because they cause suffering. Then suffering must make an action wrong. Does raising a chicken in a factory farm cause suffering? Yes, it does. Therefore, it must be wrong to raise a chicken in a factory farm!” Here, I have weighed my ethical

Critical thinking has a large part in ethics because it is a form of analysis which determines truth versus false, identifying the unidentified, and coming to an understanding. A person unraveling a mental assessment process helps to determine their ethical standards. In the analysis, also known as a reasoning process, people will always make observations. And from that we confirm facts and theory. Then we establish inferences and next assumptions. In following, we form an opinion from our observations, facts, inferences and assumptions which in turn creates arguments to protect our opinions. Lastly, the analysis is used to sort out our observations as well as other people’s observations, facts, inferences, assumptions, opinions, and claims. When doing ethics, we include rules about our responsibility and our rights to build ethical assumption about what we should do along with who we should be. We then simulate our ethical presumptions by presuming the likely outcome. One important primary

Reflection is thought by linking recent experience with early experience to promote more complex and interrelated mental models or patterns. The thinking involves looking for commonalities, differences, and interrelations beyond their superficial elements. The goal is to develop higher order thinking skills.

ffer and Rubenfeld (2000) define reflection as “ contemplation upon a subject, especially one’s assumptions and thinking for the purposes of deeper understanding and self-evaluation.”

Further, although I agree with Ransom that moral reflection can be of a person's experience in general, which may include one's actions, motivations, emotions, etc, my focus here is the status of one's moral knowledge. Thus, the kind of moral reflection I will talk about would be either reflections directly on one's moral beliefs (or what one take to be her moral knowledges), and more fundamentally, one's value systems (in Scheler's words, one's order of love), or moral reflection of one's experience (including emotions, motivations, actions, etc.) for the purpose of reflection upon her moral knowledge. Example of the latter would be reflection on how certain emotion or hidden motivation of a person distorts some of her moral beliefs or

During the process of reasoning an individual makes assumptions based on perceptions and observations. Through our observations and perceptions we are able to gain information on different situations. It is the individual’s job to analyze the pertinent information and form the information into useful knowledge. Through this process of thought and reasoning individuals find out what is relevant and what is not. Individuals create interpretations, perceptions leading to judgment and the formation opinions on different aspects of life. We create our own ideals and morals.

Some people believe our life is based off of morals, a belief of right/justification or wrong/ unjust. Living this way perceives their ways of the world by doing what they feel is good or bad or what is lead by their conscience regardless of religion. Others believe in religion, a feeling or act of faith, from God or “gods” ( Merriam-Webster). These acts motivated by faith and God/ “gods” provide a comprehension between choices, a choice given to all for all based off of a religious belief. In analyzing this presentation, it will show what the writer of this topic is trying to point out to the intended audience or its purpose, while conveying to the readers what morality and religion is.

Now that both sides have been established, those stakeholders who favor and those who oppose the policy in question, each of their argument 's evidence and reasoning will be analyzed. The corresponding pages which follow will provide an understanding of each side through three developed sections: a critical analysis, moral reasoning, and a tentative solution. The critical analysis will thoroughly measure to what level an argument 's authoritative, accuracy, reliability, precision, applicability, and etc. is able to represent their claims. At the same time the critical analysis includes a judgement call on whether or not a side 'wins ' or 'loses ' each of their arguments based upon the strength and weakness of the argument 's claims and evidence. The moral reasoning section will then secondary the value of each side 's evidence, and focus on analyzing each side 's moral reasoning, or rather, evaluating what "values, obligations, consequences, and normative principles" present reasonableness to their position on morality. Following these two sections of analysis, a conclusion will be made on which of the two sides makes an overall stronger, more conclusive and moral argued solution to the normative question.