Context - Setting Flashcards
Prevalence of deceit and dishonesty, corruption, manipulation and a deadening preoccupation with narrow political interests
Erosion of moral values
THE THREATS TO LIFE DIRECTLY AFFLICT
THE ____ AND THE ____
WEAK and DEFENSELESS
The present generation is characterized by
the extraordinary increase and
gravity of ___to life.
threats
THREATS TO LIFE:
WHATEVER IS OPPOSED TO LIFE
WHATEVER VIOLATES THE INTEGRITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
WHATEVER INSULTS HUMAN DIGNITY
Murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia, suicide
WHATEVER IS OPPOSED TO LIFE
mutilation, torments inflicted on body and mind
WHATEVER VIOLATES THE INTEGRITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
Subhuman living conditions slavery imprisonment human trafficking disgraceful working conditions
WHATEVER INSULTS HUMAN DIGNITY
Progress in science and technology
Regress in moral life
IT IS GRAVE AND DISTURBING
THAT CONSCIENCE IS DARKENED
BY WIDESPREAD CONDITIONING
AS A RESULT,
IT HAS BECOME DIFFICULT
TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL
SYMPTOMATIC OF MORAL DECLINE
SYMPTOMATIC OF MORAL DECLINE: Crime against life are ___ and ___
Go unpunished
and Made
Legal
Indications of Moral Decline
moral permissiveness
relativism
loss of morals
allows anything and does not even care of the results of one’s actions
moral permissiveness
does not consider, the objective values, in themselves, but realizes them simply for one’s convenience according to situations
relativism
excludes moral values in their judgment of human behavior
loss of morals
life giving
moral assendancy
death dealing
moral decline
Three things to do from Micah 6:8
to act justly, to love tenderly and to walk humbly with your God
As there are ethos and mores that govern our needs which come from our bodily space-time limitations
technical norms
As there are ethos and mores that has to do with the need for group cohesion and for strengthening the bonds that keep the community together
societal norm
As there are ethos and mores regarding color, shape, space, movement… in the natural and in man-made environment
aesthetic norm
There are also ethos and mores that govern those things which the community cherishes and considers of ultimate worth, which gives ultimate sense and direction to human existence
moral norm
a more or less permanent behavior in accordance with the precepts of the natural moral law which is universally known and common to all men
custom
guides the intellect in the acquisition and application of the moral principles. Also compels man to follow the directions to his ultimate destiny
role of ethics
Classical definition: It is a theological research which in the light of revealed principles studies voluntary human acts in relation to their final end.
Moral Theology
a study concerned with morality, of the good and evil of human acts, and is theology, in so far as the end and the beginning are found in God.
Moral Theology
It is a scientific reflection on the Gospel as the gift and commandment of new life, a reflection on the life which ‘professes the truth in love’ (cf Eph 4: 15) and on the Church’s life of holiness, in which there shines forth the truth about the good brought to its perfection.
1993 Veritatis Splendor
Sources of Moral Theology
Tradition
Scripture
Magisteruim
Reason/Experience
The most salient characteristic of ethics
grounded in reason and human experience
horizontal ethics
Secular
ethics
vertical ethics
Religious
ethics
are instituted to promote well-being
laws
God’s revelation of the moral law in nature or conscience holds that reason can discover what is right or wrong even apart from divine revelation
natural law
morality as to refer to a code of conduct put forward by a society or, some other group, such as a religion, or
accepted by an individual for her own behavior
descriptively
morality as to refer to a code of conduct that, given specified conditions, would be put forward by all rational persons
normatively
One should be moral because (7)
1 Morality is that which sustains life. 2 Sin is that which destroys life. 3 Morality is the standard of human relations. 4 Morality is constructivity; 5 Sin as destructivity. 6 Morality is solving problems; 7 Sin is creating problems
