The Ethics of the Interfaith Movement

Posted: 06/17/2013 6:34 am
By contributing writer Akash Mehta for KidSpirit's God Issue.

What does it mean to live a good human life?

There, in a sentence, is perhaps the most important question a human can ask. Without an adequate answer to it, life is meaningless; we have been struggling to come up with one since our very inception. It is the question that has given rise to the entire field of philosophical ethics, the question each one of us must ask ourselves and try to answer in order to live a human life at all.

The most common and natural way to answer this question is to subscribe to a personal code of ethics, and then aspire to lead your life by this code. From the ancient warrior fighting for his country for whom devotion to his king and honor in battle are the ultimate duties, to the corn farmer in Kansas who believes he was put on this earth to support his family and to give his kids the opportunities they deserve, everyone has a picture of what he or she "should" be doing with their life. Of course, most of us don't always live up to that ideal; the soldier's fear might overcome his sense of honor, and he might run away at the moment of battle. Nevertheless, he still knows what he'd like to be brave enough to do. He has a sense of how he should live, how he would want someone else in his position to live.

Having a personal code of ethics is rarely enough -- next, he will try to make others live by it. Whether this means raising his children with certain values, trying to convince others through conversation and debate to live in a certain way, forcing a group of people to do as he wants, or simply setting an example that will show others that his way of life bears positive results, he will likely influence and help create others' ethical codes, both actively and passively. And then they, in turn, will influence the ethics of those around them. So spreads culture, ethics and religion.

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