In blog number five I was asked to consider a question relating to my topic and then stake my claim. The question was why are we moral? A lot of my response had to due with the fact that I think we act morally because it’s the way we were raised. I also brought up the Social Contract Theory. The social Contract Theory “implies that the people give up some rights to a government and/or other authority in order to receive or jointly preserve social order” (Wikipedia). James Rachels states that living morally is in our self-interests. That’s the statement that I will focus a lot on in my final paper.
In regards to the Social Contract Theory, a counter argument might question why it’s important for us to try and maintain a cooperative society; if this requires me to act morally, how will this benefit me as an individual? In response to that, I would say that living mutually and accepting the idea of a cooperative society would be benefit us in the sense that we’d get reassurance that the cohesiveness of the structure of society will be maintained. More or less, it means that we can live comfortably, at least somewhat. By maintaining this cooperative society we are agreeing to follow a standard of moral codes.
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J, I'm glad you stuck with your topic question. It is interesting, you just have to find reasons to support it, and you did. I agree that the social contract provides convenience for us: without it humanity would be in chaos. I'm certain that you are going to have an interesting paper to read. Keep up the good work.
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