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The intersections of morality and religion involve the relationship between religious views and morals. It is common for religions to have value frameworks regarding personal behavior meant to guide adherents in determining between right and wrong. These include the Triple Gems of Jainism, Islam 's Sharia, Catholicism 's Catechism, Buddhism 's ...
Karma is the basic principle within an overarching psycho-cosmology in Jainism. Human moral actions form the basis of the transmigration of the soul ( jīva ). The soul is constrained to a cycle of rebirth, trapped within the temporal world ( saṃsāra ), until it finally achieves liberation ( mokṣa ). Liberation is achieved by following a ...
Unlike hypothetical imperatives, which bind us insofar as we are part of a group or society which we owe duties to, we cannot opt out of the categorical imperative because we cannot opt out of being rational agents. The categorical imperative makes our duty to the moral law a requirement of reason which holds for us as rational agents ...
Let Us Make Man: Self-esteem Through Jewishness (C.I.S, 1991) Letters to my Children (Shaar Press / Mesorah Publications, 2015) Life's Blessings : The Meaning and Significance of our Berachos (The Shaar Press, 2015) Life's Too Short: Pull the Plug on Self-defeating Behavior and Turn On the Power of Self-esteem (St. Martin's Press, 1995)
Hinduism. Purushartha ( Sanskrit: पुरुषार्थ, IAST: Puruṣārtha) literally means "object (ive) of men". [1] It is a key concept in Hinduism, and refers to the four proper goals or aims of a human life. The four puruṣārthas are Dharma (righteousness, moral values), Artha (prosperity, economic values), Kama (pleasure, love ...
The 17th-century cleric and philosopher Richard Cumberland wrote that promoting the well-being of our fellow humans is essential to the "pursuit of our own happiness". Locke never associated natural rights with happiness, but his philosophical opponent Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz made such an association in the introduction to his Codex Iuris ...
Moral responsibility. In philosophy, moral responsibility is the status of morally deserving praise, blame, reward, or punishment for an act or omission in accordance with one's moral obligations. [1] [2] Deciding what (if anything) counts as "morally obligatory" is a principal concern of ethics . Philosophers refer to people who have moral ...
Laws and moral precepts are directed to the end of curbing the cosmic process. Famous biologist and writer Stephen Jay Gould has stated that "answers will not be read passively from nature" and "[t]he factual state of the world does not teach us how we, with our powers for good and evil, should alter or preserve it in the most ethical manner ...