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Question: What is difference between Religious ethics and Philosophical ethics!?
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1!. philosophical ethics are founded on some degree of logic, religious ethics are attributed to an unseen, arbitory source!.
2!. religious ethics are about piety and appeasement!. philosophical ethics are about doing what is best
3!. Saying religious ethics is like saying military intelligence or friendly fire!. Makes you fall over laughing otherwise you would cryWww@QuestionHome@Com

1!. Religious ethics is based on conformance to stated rules, philosophical ethics is based on personal determination
2!. Religious ethics assigns a diety or dieties to ones actions, philosophical ethics assigns no diety
3!. Philosophical ethics is far more likely to change due to new experiences, history, and valid arguments of logic, religious ethics is dogma and unlikely to evolve or change
4!. Compliance to Religious ethics is frequently based on punishment, compliance to philosophical ethics is frequently based on personal commitmentWww@QuestionHome@Com

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1!. Religion = God tells you what's right
2!. Philosophy- Reason tells you right, and more importantly, WHY something is wrong or right, religion just says it is, period!.
3!. Phil also accepts there's no such thing as absolute rules like religion does- ie, religion says "killing is wrong" Absolutely (no matter what) where as Phil says "killing is wrong sometimes" relative to the situation (sometimes killing is the right thing to do

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