Norms of Morality

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Two norms of Morality:

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• The eternal law of God
• The human reason in the context of conscience.

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ultimate norm of morality

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Eternal Law

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the proximate norm of morality

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conscience

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is an ordinance of something put into order by reason, for the sake of the common good

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Law

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Made by someone who has the authority to govern that community and promulgated

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Law

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Is a rule of conduct or action established by custom or laid down and forced by the governing authority

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Law

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Is recognized by all men regardless of creed, race, culture, or historical circumstance

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Natural Law

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are rules derived from the nature that guides the human life

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Natural Law

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It is a moral obligation that arises from human nature, compelling an individual to be true to his/her nature as tao.

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Natural Law

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Is necessary because it indicates the difference between human beings and other creatures.

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Natural Law

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Are the standards that indicate the rightfulness or wrongfulness, the goodness or evilness, the value or disvalue of a thing

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Norms of Morality

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Contribution of Moral Laws

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• They provide the objective criteria for our own conscience to judge what is morally good or evil.
• They help our moral development, especially in the formation of our conscience.
• They offer the needed moral stability in our lives
• They challenge us to stretch for an ideal beyond our limited experience, and correct our moral misconceptions in the process.

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Classification of Laws

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• According to immediate author (Divine laws ; Human laws)
• According to duration (Temporal laws: Eternal laws)
• According to manner of promulgation (Natural law ; Positive law)
• According as they prescribe or forbid an act (Affirmative laws: Negative laws)
• According to effect of violation (Moral ; Penal; Mixed) Classes of Law

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God’s eternal plan and providence for creation

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Eternal Law

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applies to all creatures and directs them in harmony with their nature

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Eternal Law

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The universal law whereby God directs and governs the universe and the ways of the human community according to His plan of wisdom and love.

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Eternal Law

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Properties of Eternal Law

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Eternal and unchangeable
Absolutely universal

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existed from all eternity

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Eternal and unchangeable

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rules all things and actions. There is no limit to the breadth of its application to corporeal and spiritual, to rational and irrational creatures.

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Absolutely universal

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Man acts in accordance with physical laws

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As a bodily being

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In matters that lie under man’s free control

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As a bodily being

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Man may refuse the direction of eternal law

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As a bodily being

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That moral order

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Natural Law

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Which arises from the nature of man and creation and which can be recognized by man’s reason.

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Natural Law

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The rational creature’s participation in the eternal law.

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Natural Law

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It is the Eternal Law as known to man by his reason

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Natural Law

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There is a way human life should be lived and this “should-ness” is grasped by reason

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Natural Law

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It refers to the human participation in God’s Eternal Law. Man knows naturally, by the light of his understanding, that there are some things evil in themselves, and some things which are necessarily good.

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Natural Law

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involves a recognition of the objective nature of the moral order, grounded in God’s providence, and which is accessible to human understanding and obedience through the use of reason

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Natural Law

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Properties of Natural Law

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a. It is universal b. It is immutable or unchangeable c. It is Obligatory and Indispensable d. It is Recognizable

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Natural law is constitutive element of human nature. Therefore, it is true wherever human nature manifests itself. All humans are equal because of shared human nature. It binds every man at all times and in all places

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It is universal

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Natural law is human nature. It is immutable because human’s essential nature can never be lost as long as human is human. There is a constant in human nature which remains throughout all historical and cultural change.

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It is immutable or unchangeable

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. Natural law is human nature, calling for itself to be actualized, to “live” according to its basic and essential demands. Natural law is identical to God’s will.

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It is Obligatory and Indispensable

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It is imprinted in the human nature and human has the light of reason to know it. It is knowable by all persons using their critical reason.

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It is Recognizable.

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Laws created by human beings which can enjoin specific obligations upon individuals.

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Positive Law

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Positive Law

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Divine Positive Law | Ecclesiastical Positive Law | Civil Positive Law

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laws legislated by God found in the Bible

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Divine positive law

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laws emanating from the legislative power of the Church.

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Ecclesiastical Positive law

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They are principally found in the Code of Canon law

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Ecclesiastical Positive law

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laws legislated by a legitimate government

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Civil Positive law

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Human law

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Laws enacted by church or state Ecclesiastical law Civil law

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A human law derives its binding force

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Civil law

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From natural law and ultimately from eternal law

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Civil law

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A concrete and determinate application of natural law

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Civil law

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Properties of Human Law

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- Enforceable - Concerned with external conduct only - Limited to particular groups - Historically conditioned - Has presumptive obligatory force

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Has the coercive power of the law

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Enforceable

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External compliance with the law suffices to secure the social order and the common good.

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Concerned with external conduct only

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Human laws oblige only those who are members of the community for which the laws are enacted.

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Limited to particular groups

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Human laws change as societies and civilizations change

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Historically conditioned

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Presumption favors the duty to obey the law.

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Has presumptive obligatory force

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Conscience is derived from the Latin phrase ______________________________ which means the

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cum alia scientia; individual man’s application of knowledge or “acting with knowledge.”

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The connecting link between law and individual acts

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Conscience

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An act of the practical judgment of reason deciding upon an individuals actions as good and to be performed or as evil and to be avoided

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Conscience

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is present at the heart of the person, enjoins him at the appropriate moment to do good and to avoid evil

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Conscience

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is a judgment of reason whereby the person recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act that: * he is going to perform * is in the process of performing * has already completed

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Conscience

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Practical judgment of reason upon an individual act

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Conscience

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As good to be performed or evil to be avoided

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Conscience

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Acquired equipment of moral principles

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Synderesis

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Intuitive knowledge of right and wrong (dictate of one’s conscience)

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Synderesis

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The starting point of the reasoning process which ends in the judgment of conscience

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Synderesis

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When we are confronted with possible course of action we compare it mentally with moral rinciples and arrive at a conclusion whether the act is good or bad

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Synderesis

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Basic concept of conscience

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1. Moral judgment that discerns what is right and wrong. 2. Moral obligation or command to do good and avoid evil