University:
Seton Hall University
Course:
RELS1503 | Christian ethics
Academic year:

2024
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465

Pages:

2
Author:

Andrea B.

Andrea Borg Christian Ethics Professor Laracy 9/8/2021 Moral vision After reading the first chapter in the book “Moral Vision”, I found it a very interesting chapter in how both authors interpret moral vision. They explained very well how moral maturity varies within everyone, everyone has a different view in life and how they see things. One example they gave is if someone sees money on the floor do they think it is lost by someone or is It found? “Can or how does one change from seeing money as found! To seeing money as lost!” (Page 8). This explains the level of moral maturity which can not only be judged by the personality of someone but also the age of the person. If someone is nine years old they are obviously going to be much less mature then an adult which is always well explained by the authors. What stuck to me the most is in the conclusion as it is something I try and do in my everyday life which is be a good person, “Moral vision is the foundation of good choices and actions, and good actions form the foundation of becoming good” (Page 11), this tells me that a good person is always going to act on good actions and not even consider the bad action no matter the circumstance, its changing your own attitude and instead of seeing money as found, it is lost. I could tell that my moral vision in life has changed as my life has gone on, my moral vision 5-10 years ago was much different then today. I believe that a big factor that affects your moral vision growing up is the people you grow up with and the people you hang out with every day. Do the people you hang out with always look for good actions or bad actions? This will determine how the speed of the growth of moral maturity will grow in your life. Personally, I have always surrounded myself with good people who have good morals and always tend to do the right things. Yesterday In class, one student brought up the argument of the authors being judgmental by judging people on their moral vision. To a certain point I do agree with what she is saying because you can’t really judge a person by the maturity of their moral vision because you don’t know how that person was brought up. However, if the person was brought up in a nice neighborhood surrounded by good people, brought up with good parents and is still have an immature morality and doing the wrong actions, then to a certain degree could judge the person and really see what is wrong. Also, someone in class said that “good people do bad things and bad people do good things”, I completely agree with this phrase as everyone in the world has a different point of view about everything and other people are quick to learn from their wrong doings and mature quicker than others, so you cant be judgmental and judge a person early because there is always the good in bad and the bad in good.