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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807380903321

Autore

Finnis John

Titolo

Moral absolutes : tradition, revision, and truth / / John Finnis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : Catholic University of America Press, , 1991

©1991

ISBN

0-8132-2047-5

0-8132-0745-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 113 pages)

Collana

The Michael J. McGivney lectures of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family ; ; 1988

Disciplina

241/.042

Soggetti

Christian ethics - Catholic authors

Ethical relativism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""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 ""

""2. Specified neither evaluatively nor physically / behaviorally""""3. 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)""

""4. Intending human harm: never acceptable for God or man""""5. 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""