Finnis, John. <br/><br/>
Moral absolutes :  tradition, revision, and truth / 
John Finnis. 
 - Washington, D.C. :  Catholic University of America Press,  (c)1991. 
 - 1 online resource (vi, 113 pages) 
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 - The Michael J. McGivney lectures of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family ;  1988 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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 /  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)  behaviorally3. Opposed to reason and integral human fulfillment -- 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 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813220475 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Catholic Church--Doctrines.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Christian ethics--Catholic authors.<br/>Ethical relativism.<br/>Ethical relativism--Controversial literature.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Catholic Church  Doctrines Christian ethics  Catholic authors Ethical relativism 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BJ1249  / .M673 1991