Morality and Religion (Leaving Cert Religious Education): Flashcards

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Comparison: Religious and Moral Person
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Shared trait of both religious & moral persons

Conviction-driven behaviour

What both groups believe about their actions

They are morally correct

Shared value both approaches seek

Commitment to goodness

Religious person's primary motivation

Pleasing God/transcendent power

Moral person's primary motivation

Common good of humanity

Question religious person asks when deciding

What would please God?

Question moral person asks when deciding

What serves humanity best?

Source of religious person's moral understanding

Divine guidance/religious teachings

Moral person's main orientation

Common good orientation

Religious person's focus type

Transcendent focus

Moral person's goal for society

Social harmony/peaceful living

Foundation of religious morality

Divine guidance

Foundation of secular morality

Humanitarian concerns

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