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Ethics and Religion
Author(s) -
Davis G. Scott
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
religion compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.113
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1749-8171
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2008.00103.x
Subject(s) - consequentialism , teleology , deontological ethics , discipline , moral character , variety (cybernetics) , sociology , epistemology , transdisciplinarity , ethnography , character (mathematics) , immorality , wish , environmental ethics , psychology , social psychology , morality , philosophy , social science , anthropology , geometry , mathematics , artificial intelligence , computer science
This essay surveys the relations between ethics and religion in a variety of comparative contexts. It suggests replacing the older paradigms of moral theory, for example, deontology/teleology/consequentialism, with a more supple one deploying law, character, and economics. At the same time, it argues for an emphasis on history and ethnography that will ultimately blur both typologies and disciplinary boundaries. This is a good thing if we wish to understand how people actually think about their moral commitments and the worlds they live in.