Fallible

We can agree that humans are fallible-we make mistakes. We can then ask, are all of our faculties fallible? Are our emotions, our feelings wrong? What of our faculties-that is those abilities that interpret and give emotion i.e. reason and logic. Well, the answer to this is not easy, but I believe we can come up with a moral view. Emotions themselves cannot be in themselves (intrinsically) wrong or right. For ask yourself, the friend who just lost their friend feels anger, is this wrong? No, and more it is normal. Normal emotions are not fallible. However, the human mind is. If we are not given a moral theory, and let to grow without thoughts of the rightness or wrongness of an action, humans tend to return to their lower, sinful state in nature.

Yet that is neither here nor there, because some would argue the natural state of man is one of higher morality. And yet this theory is not accepted by most because we form a political state to escape the unclean natural state of man.

If an opinion comes from a fallible being, can that opinion be trusted? Well, it depends on those persons morals. If a moral intuition comes from a fallible person, can it be trusted? Accordingly, individual people must make this decision. If you answer that a persons intuitions come from imperfect faculties and therefore cannot be trusted, it is reasoned that you may come to the conclusion that the divinity gave mankind moral law and therefore what God says must be followed. If you answer that humans are rational beings and can use logic as a slave to our wants, needs and desires (In this case, a rational moral viewpoint) you probably follow the moral theory set forth by Immanuel Kant and David Hume.

Next up…arguments against constant moral deliberations and superiority of divine command for simple moral questions and facts.