ABSTRACT: The question whether ethical behavior is biologically determined may refer either to the capacity for ethics (i.e., the proclivity to judge human
Biological theories of moral development indicate that people are moral or immoral due to some biological predispositions. Human brain is divided into four different lobes and psychologists argue that frontal lobe, which is involved in conscious thinking plays a key role in moral development.
Ethical behavior came about in evolution not because it is adaptive in itself, but as a necessary consequence of man's eminent intellectual abilities, which are
Humans seem biologically programmed with an innate moral sense of ethics and morality, much as we are programmed for language. As with language, the form this
KEY WORDS: Sociobiology, evolutionary ethics, ethical behavior, norms of morality, Herbert Spencer was perhaps the first philosopher seeking to find the.
Since Darwin's time there have been evolutionists proposing that the norms of morality are derived from biological evolution. Sociobiologists represent the most
The first observation is that our biological nature may predispose us to accept certain moral precepts, but it does not constrain us to accept them, nor to
Argument for the existence of God
The argument from morality is an argument for the existence of God.
Arguments from morality tend to be based on moral normativity or moral order.
Arguments from moral normativity observe some aspect of morality and argue that God is the best or only explanation for this, concluding that God must exist.
Arguments from moral order are based on the asserted need for moral order to exist in the universe.
They claim that, for this moral order to exist, God must exist to support it.
The argument from morality is noteworthy in that one cannot evaluate the soundness of the argument without attending to almost every important philosophical issue in meta-ethics.
Argument for the existence of God
The argument from morality is an argument for the existence of God.
Arguments from morality tend to be based on moral normativity or moral order.
Arguments from moral normativity observe some aspect of morality and argue that God is the best or only explanation for this, concluding that God must exist.
Arguments from moral order are based on the asserted need for moral order to exist in the universe.
They claim that, for this moral order to exist, God must exist to support it.
The argument from morality is noteworthy in that one cannot evaluate the soundness of the argument without attending to almost every important philosophical issue in meta-ethics.