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200 10$aMoral absolutes $etradition, revision, and truth /$fJohn Finnis
205   $a1st ed.
210  1$aWashington, D.C. :$cCatholic University of America Press,$d1991.
210  4$aŠ1991
215   $a1 online resource (vi, 113 pages)
225 1 $aThe Michael J. McGivney lectures of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family ;$v1988
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $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 ""
327   $a""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)""
327   $a""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""
330   $aMoral Absolutes sets forth a vigorous but careful critique of much recent work in moral theology. It is illustrated with examples from the most controversial aspects of Christian moral doctrine, and a frank account is given of the roots of the upheaval in Roman Catholic moral theology in and after the 1960s.
410  0$aMichael J. McGivney lectures of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family ;$v1988.
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606   $aEthical relativism
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615  0$aEthical relativism.
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