William Craig's Meta-Ethical Foundations

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When reading William Craigs article on Meta-ethical foundations, he discussed a lot about his three basic ideas of what is needed to live a morally acceptable life. He highlights the three foundations of a persons moral source, obligation and accountability. For this paper i decided to take on the task of defining moral accountability and relating it to a real world business perspective. To begin, accountability according to the merriam webster dictionary is, “an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions.” Craig applies this definition to his metha-ethical paper by asking us when we are held moral accountable for our actions, if at all. From a theistic point of view it is very clear that we are morally …show more content…

You can begin to ask the question if it is morally the right thing to do to drag a 69 year old man off of a plane that he bought a ticket for. Morally it is never right to treat another person like that and while it is the fault of the people allowing an old man to be dragged by his arms out of his seat, it is the company's obligation to address the situation that happened at their airport and take the blame for it. While what was done to this man was not an act of mortal sin it is without a doubt not an act of kindness and holiness. So that is the problem at hand, if there is no God and no afterlife then why would the company, the security guard dragging the man, or the people watching it happen have any moral obligation to do the “morally right thing.” While there may not be a theistic obligation to help this man, there is still is a social obligation. The obligation that while you won't be judged after death but instead in the real living world, the only world that matters to those of an atheistic point of view. United Airline was heavily attacked and punished for their “morally wrong” acts by losing customers as well as money. This event affected the company's reputation heavily, and while they were not obligated to do the right thing for a theistic reason, they were obligated to apologize

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