03549nam 2200613 a 450 991046279440332120211019194127.00-8132-2047-50-8132-0745-2(CKB)2670000000310054(EBL)3135014(SSID)ssj0000851565(PQKBManifestationID)11499817(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000851565(PQKBWorkID)10848969(PQKB)10932193(MiAaPQ)EBC3135014(OCoLC)815970284(MdBmJHUP)muse24104(Au-PeEL)EBL3135014(CaPaEBR)ebr10642480(OCoLC)922996776(EXLCZ)99267000000031005419901128d1991 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMoral absolutes[electronic resource] tradition, revision, and truth /John FinnisWashington, D.C. Catholic University of America Pressc19911 online resource (120 p.)The Michael J. McGivney lectures of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family ;1988Description based upon print version of record.0-8132-0744-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.""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""Michael J. McGivney lectures of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family ;1988.Christian ethicsCatholic authorsEthical relativismElectronic books.Christian ethicsCatholic authors.Ethical relativism.241/.042Finnis John250551MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462794403321Moral absolutes2465498UNINA