Accounting Ethics
Ethical systems are divided into two categories: nonabsolutism and absolutism (Geisler, 2010). The second category is in line with the Christian worldview, while the first one is not. The three main classes of values that are incompatible with the Christian worldview include antinomianism, situationism and generalism. On the other hand, those that are compatible include conflicting absolutism, unqualified absolutism and graded absolutism. According to Geisler (2010), Christian ethics deals with what is morally right and wrong for a Christian. Under antinomianism, there exists no moral law (Geisler, 2010). It rejects all the general and universal laws. According to Geisler (2010), antinomians are atheists who deny all moral values…show more content… It is not that they are opposed to laws, but that they believe there are not any divine or natural laws at all. However, they do believe in positive social laws, which are necessary to live in this society. One of the positive contributions this unethical system has is that it makes emphasis on individual responsibility, denotation that each individual is responsible for his or her actions. Additionally, it gives more importance to personal relations than to rules. They states that their mainly decent accountability is to society, not to rules. And lastly, antinomianisms recognize an emotive element. “Not all alleged imperatives are really prescriptive; some are merely emotive” (Geisler, 2010). Situationism and generalism are sometimes categorized as forms of antinomianism (Feinberg, Feinberg &
