Moral Norms Flashcards
This refers to God’s Word handed down in written form
Sacred Scriptures
Example of Sacred Scriptures
10 Commandments
What’s written in a socio-cultural-politico-technological-temportal context?
Sacred Scriptures
This refers to God’s Living Word handed down in non-written form, especially oral forms
Sacred Traditions
What is an example of Sacred Tradition that has been written down by “Fathers of the Church”?
Didache
Refers to the interplay of established moral norms, everyday experience of humans, and developments around the world
Human experience
What are 2 concrete examples of “change” in Church’s treatment?
Usury and slavery
This refers to a range of moral theories that rely on human reason to discern the natural order to tell good from evil.
Natural Law
There is an objective moral order of right and wrong that is not of human origin and can be partially expressed in ethical norms to which humans are accountable
Ontological premise
Posts that humans can partially know through their own with the use of reason the demands of this objective moral order
Epistemological premise
Where does Natural Law initially start?
Greek Stoic Philosophy
4 Human basic natural inclinations
Self-preservation, self-reproduction, sociability, and knowledge
Is natural law humanity’s participation in God’s eternal Law?
Yes
What is eternal law?
“God’s orders direct, and govern the whole world and the ways of the human community according to a plan conceived by God’s wisdom and Love”
Refers to the institutionalized teaching authority of the Catholic Church in matters of faith and morals
Magisterium
