Moral absolutes : tradition, revision, and truth / / John Finnis
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| Autore: |
Finnis John
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| Titolo: |
Moral absolutes : tradition, revision, and truth / / John Finnis
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C. : , : Catholic University of America Press, , 1991 |
| ©1991 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (vi, 113 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 241/.042 |
| Soggetto topico: | Christian ethics - Catholic authors |
| Ethical relativism | |
| 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"" | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 the 1960s. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Moral absolutes |
| ISBN: | 0-8132-2047-5 |
| 0-8132-0745-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910955779003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Michael J. McGivney lectures of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family ; ; 1988.