Lesson 1: Moral Situation Flashcards
What is happening to our society?
Disrespect to human life
Corruption in many sectors.
Cases of evasion and obstruction of the truth
Corrupted idea of what is good and bad
Crisis of moral values, a crisis of truth and justice, of unity and solidarity
Plight of the poor are being ignored.
Anxiety about the negative effects of mining, commercial logging, illegal quarrying and fishing
What did Pope Benedict XVI said?
“a State which is not governedaccording to justice would be just a bunch of thieves.”
Pope Benedict XVI
citing St. Augustine’s observation
in?
Deus Caritas Est, 28
The present generation is characterized by
the what?
extraordinary increase and
gravity of threats to life
THREATS TO LIFE:
A.WHATEVER IS OPPOSED TO LIFE
B. WHATEVER VIOLATES THE INTEGRITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
C. WHATEVER INSULTS HUMAN DIGNITY
A.WHATEVER IS OPPOSED TO LIFE
Murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia, suicide
B. WHATEVER VIOLATES THE INTEGRITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
mutilation, torments inflicted on body and mind
C. WHATEVER INSULTS HUMAN DIGNITY
Subhuman living conditions slavery imprisonment human trafficking disgraceful working conditions
ALL THESE ARE:
Poisons to human society
Against what?
the order of reason
Progress in what regress in moral life
science and technology
Indications of Moral Decline
Moral Permissiveness
Relativism
Loss of morals
Allows anything and does not even care of the result 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
Indications of Moral Upliftment
Growing significance of man and his full realization as a social being
General awareness of the respect to the rights of others as a criteria of morality
General acceptance of social responsibility
