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Moral Absolutes : Tradition, Revision, and Truth (Michael J. McGivney Lectures of the John Paul II Institute) /

Moral Absolutes sets forth a vigorous but careful critique of much recent work in moral theology. It is illustrated with examples from the most controversial aspects of Christian moral doctrine, and a frank account is given of the roots of the upheaval in Roman Catholic moral theology in and after t...

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Autor principal: Finnis, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 1991.
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505 0 |a Contents -- Foreword -- I. Foundations -- 1. Exceptionless moral norms: few but strategic -- 2. Witnessed to by faith -- 3. Part of the theology of human fulfillment -- 4. Rejected when human replaces divine providence -- 5. No narrowing of horizons -- 6. Choice, reflexivity, and proportionalism -- 7. Protecting changeless aspects of human fulfillment -- 8. Negative norms but positive and revelatory -- 9. Rejection: some motivations and implications -- II. Clarifications -- 1. Intrinsece mala: acts always wrong, but not by definition 
505 0 |a 2. Specified neither evaluatively nor physically / behaviorally3. Opposed to reason and integral human fulfillment -- 4. Worse than suffering wrong -- 5. Proportionalist justifications: incoherent with rationally motivated free choice -- 6. The central case: intentional harm, always unreasonable -- 7. Deadly defense and death penalty: not necessarily proportionalist -- III. Christian Witness -- 1. Free choice: a morally decisive reality -- 2. Evil: not to be chosen that good may come -- 3. Actions: morally specified by their objects (intentions) 
505 0 |a 4. Intending human harm: never acceptable for God or man5. Counterexamples -- 6. Responsibility for side effects: other principles and norms -- IV. Challenge and Response -- 1. Contraception and the general denial of absolutes -- 2. Historical and ecclesiological skirmishes -- 3. The main action: in philosophical theology -- 4. Prudence misconceived: the absolutes aesthetically dissolved -- 5. A summary conclusion -- Index 
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