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what are the 5 moral attributes that help maintain order and security?

i cant figure it out does anyone know?

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  • 8 years ago
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    A large part of the reason you cannot figure it out is because the question you pose is malformed.

    If you seek the moral attributes of God (as posited by Christianity), that depends on which faith-group you ask. Each assigns different moral attributes (positive and negative) to God which are oft-times mutually exclusive.

    For example, he is a jealous god (and therefore will punish worship of other gods), yet he is a loving god (he accepts you for who you are).

    If you seek the moral or ethical attributes of philosophy, they have changed over the years (as morality and ethics are subjective to cultures, not objective). For example, it was considered right and proper to execute people in Western Europe for high crimes, it is now considered barbaric. But both reasons are advanced as ways to maintain order. Similarly, it was viewed in Dixie as moral to maintain slaves, both for Biblical reasons and for order (the people enslaved needed rulers to take care of them), and running away was actually classed as mental illness (as well as a crime).

    In general, there is no particular set of five moral attributes that maintain order. Lots of moral attributes could do that. (Fear of the government or a church instilled as morality in a child would work well toward maintaining the desired order as adults: it is difficult to break childhood inculcation.)

    For an overview of moral reasoning, the entry in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, linked below, might help.

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