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050 0 4 _aBJ1249
_b.M673 1991
049 _aMAIN
100 1 _aFinnis, John.
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245 1 0 _aMoral absolutes :
_btradition, revision, and truth /
_cJohn Finnis.
260 _aWashington, D.C. :
_bCatholic University of America Press,
_c(c)1991.
300 _a1 online resource (vi, 113 pages)
336 _atext
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490 1 _aThe Michael J. McGivney lectures of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family ;
_v1988
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520 0 _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.
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505 0 0 _aContents --
_tForeword --
_tI. Foundations --
_t1. Exceptionless moral norms: few but strategic --
_t2. Witnessed to by faith --
_t3. Part of the theology of human fulfillment --
_t4. Rejected when human replaces divine providence --
_t5. No narrowing of horizons --
_t6. Choice, reflexivity, and proportionalism --
_t7. Protecting changeless aspects of human fulfillment --
_t8. Negative norms but positive and revelatory --
_t9. Rejection: some motivations and implications --
_tII. Clarifications --
_t1. Intrinsece mala: acts always wrong, but not by definition
505 0 0 _a2. Specified neither evaluatively nor physically /
_rbehaviorally3. Opposed to reason and integral human fulfillment --
_t4. Worse than suffering wrong --
_t5. Proportionalist justifications: incoherent with rationally motivated free choice --
_t6. The central case: intentional harm, always unreasonable --
_t7. Deadly defense and death penalty: not necessarily proportionalist --
_tIII. Christian Witness --
_t1. Free choice: a morally decisive reality --
_t2. Evil: not to be chosen that good may come --
_t3. Actions: morally specified by their objects (intentions)
505 0 0 _a4. Intending human harm: never acceptable for God or man5. Counterexamples --
_t6. Responsibility for side effects: other principles and norms --
_tIV. Challenge and Response --
_t1. Contraception and the general denial of absolutes --
_t2. Historical and ecclesiological skirmishes --
_t3. The main action: in philosophical theology --
_t4. Prudence misconceived: the absolutes aesthetically dissolved --
_t5. A summary conclusion --
_tIndex
610 2 0 _aCatholic Church
_xDoctrines.
650 0 _aChristian ethics
_xCatholic authors.
650 0 _aEthical relativism.
650 0 _aEthical relativism
_vControversial literature.
653 0 _aCatholic Church
_aDoctrines
653 0 _aChristian ethics
_aCatholic authors
653 0 _aEthical relativism
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
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