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This 4 page paper discusses the question of whether or not morality can exist without God, and argues that it can. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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truly define it. This paper discusses the question of whether or not morality can exist without God, and argues that it can. What is Morality? Before we can address our
main question direction, we have to understand what morality is, or at least what common usage tells us it is. One source says morality "refers to the concept of human
ethics which pertain to matters of good and evil -also referred to as "right or wrong", used within three contexts: individual conscience, systems of principles and judgments ... shared within
a cultural, religious, secular, Humanist, or philosophical community; and codes of behavior or conduct derived from these systems" (Morality, 2006). This definition is useful for several reasons, not least of
which is that it nowhere mentions God. One source is not enough of a sample to make an authoritative claim, but it indicates that we may find that morality doesnt
depend on God at all. Concerning the Question Itself The question under discussion is this: "If God did not exist, would morality still be possible?" Clearly, the writer believes that
God does exist, or s/he would have framed the query differently. That is, the author does not say, "Prove that God exists, and then discuss morality" but simply takes Gods
existence as fact. However, the existence of God still remains unproven; the Cosmological Argument has been raging for centuries and still continues to this day, so we cannot say for
certain that God exists. Therefore, for this question to be meaningful, we have to consider what actually prompts it. It is most likely that the question deals with the idea
of punishment; would we behave morally if we were certain we would not be punished if we behaved immorally? Or if we turn it around, we can ask the same
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