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Ethics I and II Flashcards

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Natural Law

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

Human Law

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If they command unjust things, their subjects are not obliged to obey them

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Natural Law

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

Synderesis Rule

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Do good and avoid evil

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Natural Law

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

Natural Law - intro statement

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To the Natural Law belongs everything to which man is inclined according to his nature

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Natural Law

John Finnis

‘Basic forms of human flourishing’

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A theory of moral action for our day

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Natural Law

Romans 2:15

Natural Law = Intrinsic

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The requirements of the law are written on their hearts

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Natural Law

Hugo Grotius, On the Law of War and Peace

NL does not fully depend on God

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Would have a degree of validity even if we should concede that… there is no God

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Sexual Ethics

Mark 10:12

Marriage

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What God has joined let no one separate

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Sexual Ethics

1 Corinthians 7:9

Extra-marital sex

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It is better to marry than to be aflame with passion

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Sexual Ethics

Leviticus 20:13

Homosexuality

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If a man lies with a lan as he does with a woman, both have committed an abomination (then says they should get the death penalty)

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Sexual Ethics

Humanae Vitae

Contraception and Homosexuality

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Every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life

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Sexual Ethics

CCC

Homosexuals

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They must be accepted with respect

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Sexual Ethics

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

Homosexual sex is against the natural order

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Contra ordinem rationis

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Sexual Ethics

Leviticus 20:10

Adultery = death penalty

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If a man commits adultery… both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death

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Sexual Ethics

John 8:7

Adultery can be forgiven - Fletcher’s golden thread of agape?

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Let the one without sin cast the first stone

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Sexual Ethics

1 Corinthians 6:9

Homosexuality - and translation contraversy

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[Homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom of God]
Malokoi = soft - passive sexual partner? Effeminate? or homosexual?

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Sexual Ethics

J.S.Mill, On Liberty

Only time a government can exercise power over people is to…

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Prevent harm to others

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Sexual Ethics

W. Norman Pittenger, Towards a Theology of Gay Liberation

Homosexuality should be allowed since…

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Present in all cultures
(Equally as fulfilling)

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Sexual Ethics

Immanuel Kant, Lectures

Homosexual sex

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Demeans man below the beasts

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Situation Ethics

Joseph Fletcher, Situation Ethics

Conscience

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The traiditional error lies in thinking about conscience as a noun instead of a verb

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Situation Ethics

Joseph Fletcher, Situation Ethics

Relativism and teleological

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Give me a real case

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Situation Ethics

Joseph Fletcher, Situation Ethics

Justice

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Justice is love distributed

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Situation Ethics

John 14:15

Against Fletcher’s interpretation of Bible

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If you love me, keep my commandments

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Situation Ethics

Matthew 22:37-39

What is the most important commandment

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Love the Lord with all your heart… and love your neighbour as yourself

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Situation Ethics

Matthew 25

Agape in salvation

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[The parable of the Sheep and the Goats]

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Situation Ethics

Richard McCormick

Fletcher is bad - SE conclusion

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Fletcher’s contribution is intellectually dissatisfying and systematically underdeveloped

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Situation Ethics

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Freedom is bad for society

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Nothing has ever been so intolerable to man and human society as freedom

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Situation Ethics

Ernest F. Kevan

NT and Legalism - against Fletcher

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The New Testament teaches unambiguously that the Ten Commandments are still binding upon all men

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Conscience

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

Conscientia

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It is a judgement of reason derived from the natural law

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Conscience

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

Conscience and sin

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He who acts against his conscience always sins

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Conscience

CCC

Conscience

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It formulates its judgement according to reason

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Conscience

Romans 2:15

Natural Law

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The requirements of the law are written on their hearts

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Conscience

John Henry Newman

Conscience = God x2

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Messenger from God
I salute the Pope, but I salute conscience first

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Conscience

Vincent MacNamara

Conscience = attitude

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It is not so much that I have a conscience that I am a conscience

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Conscience

Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics

Natural Theology (vs Aquinas)

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The finite has no capacity for the infinite

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Conscience

Sigmund Freud

Psychosexual development is at the root of it all

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Sexual desire is the prime motivating drive in all humans

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Conscience

Sigmund Freud

Moral responsibility

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There is nothing in psychoanalysis that refutes this ordinary, everyday meaning of moral responsibility

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