THE INTUITION OF ACKNOWLEDGING THE DIVINE AND DEONTOLOGICAL MORALITY: THE CULTIVATION OF HUMAN NATURE
Keywords:
God, Deontological morality, Human NatureAbstract
This article examined the basic elements necessary for cultivating human nature. An instinctive belief in God, similar to a human’s acceptance of other common-sense knowledge such as causality and other universal facts, driven by intuitive thinking, is one of the key attributes instilled in humans since birth. On the other hand, the cultivation of human nature through the development of analytical thinking skills is linked to being a major cause for reducing Gods status to a “God of the gaps”. In addition, this also connotes the need to deny objective moral norms and to replace the deontological approach of moral judgment with that of consequentialism. In other words, it is a paradigm shift of moral judgment, from deontology to the code of ethics which regulates moral judgment on the outcome of actions regardless of the existing rules and moral customs. It can be said, thus, that this is the cultivation of human nature that contradicts human instincts.
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