Moral Beauty`s Divine Center: Jonathan Edwards
... kind of beauty, or excellency.”20 These great moral acts are beautiful because the effect they have upon us stems from their own adherence to the beautiful characteristics of consent and proportion. Yet before we can address how morality adheres to consent and proportion, we must examine where moral ...
... kind of beauty, or excellency.”20 These great moral acts are beautiful because the effect they have upon us stems from their own adherence to the beautiful characteristics of consent and proportion. Yet before we can address how morality adheres to consent and proportion, we must examine where moral ...
Gatta_Santina_2015_research paper
... as it did thousands of years ago. In the time of Aristotle, such letters written in Greek and circulating as written material in ancient Greece were considered valuable knowledge, which was special. Aristotle’s ethics is unclear on many counts. One idea is that doing things well need not require the ...
... as it did thousands of years ago. In the time of Aristotle, such letters written in Greek and circulating as written material in ancient Greece were considered valuable knowledge, which was special. Aristotle’s ethics is unclear on many counts. One idea is that doing things well need not require the ...
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV The Brothers Karamazov
... Dostoevsky intentionally distances the hero of the story from fanaticism. In fact, religion is only seen as a channel for loving people which is Alyosha’s distinguishing characteristic. It is this virtue of love that appears to be at the center of Dostoevsky’s ethical system and not religion. A seco ...
... Dostoevsky intentionally distances the hero of the story from fanaticism. In fact, religion is only seen as a channel for loving people which is Alyosha’s distinguishing characteristic. It is this virtue of love that appears to be at the center of Dostoevsky’s ethical system and not religion. A seco ...
Conscience - Transform Work UK
... If there are laws, then there must be a lawgiver. A non-personal force cannot give laws; only a lawgiver can. Our conscience, therefore, is a strong piece of evidence that there is supreme holy being. Christians believe it is God, our Creator, who planted His laws in every heart. This is exactly wha ...
... If there are laws, then there must be a lawgiver. A non-personal force cannot give laws; only a lawgiver can. Our conscience, therefore, is a strong piece of evidence that there is supreme holy being. Christians believe it is God, our Creator, who planted His laws in every heart. This is exactly wha ...
European Philosophy and the Kabbalah
... (3) This new understanding of the inner structure of ideas in Spinoza will lead us to my third thesis in which I explain and solve another old riddle in Spinoza’s metaphysics: his insistence on the impossibility of the human mind knowing any of God’s infinite attributes other than Thought and Extens ...
... (3) This new understanding of the inner structure of ideas in Spinoza will lead us to my third thesis in which I explain and solve another old riddle in Spinoza’s metaphysics: his insistence on the impossibility of the human mind knowing any of God’s infinite attributes other than Thought and Extens ...
Christian Ethics article
... weakest. Ethical questions are assaulting us at breakneck speed at a time when people have lost their sense of mooring, their sense of stability and their sense of possessing some platform on which to stand as they make moral decisions. ...
... weakest. Ethical questions are assaulting us at breakneck speed at a time when people have lost their sense of mooring, their sense of stability and their sense of possessing some platform on which to stand as they make moral decisions. ...
Divine Command Moral Ontology - SPARK: Scholarship at Parkland
... duties in a transcendent but non-theistic base, while the latter tries to ground them in some sort of human flourishing. These views will be considered in turn. Take first, Atheistic Moral Platonism (hereby AMP). This view may be said to find its origin in the works of Plato, who thought that there ...
... duties in a transcendent but non-theistic base, while the latter tries to ground them in some sort of human flourishing. These views will be considered in turn. Take first, Atheistic Moral Platonism (hereby AMP). This view may be said to find its origin in the works of Plato, who thought that there ...
Glossary of Ethics - Lonergan Resource
... thing to do in a situation Agnosticism. The conviction that one simply does not know whether God exists or not; it is often accompanied with a further conviction that one need not care whether God exists or not. Altruism. A selfless concern for other people purely for their own sake. Altruism is usu ...
... thing to do in a situation Agnosticism. The conviction that one simply does not know whether God exists or not; it is often accompanied with a further conviction that one need not care whether God exists or not. Altruism. A selfless concern for other people purely for their own sake. Altruism is usu ...
Introduction - CatholiCurrent.com
... human act which are by their nature incapable of being ordered to God, because they radically contradict the good of the person made in his image.”25 Such acts are called “intrinsically evil” (intrinsece malum) acts, which are “always and per se…on account of their very object, and quite apart from ...
... human act which are by their nature incapable of being ordered to God, because they radically contradict the good of the person made in his image.”25 Such acts are called “intrinsically evil” (intrinsece malum) acts, which are “always and per se…on account of their very object, and quite apart from ...
The Splendor of Truth (Veritatis Splendor, John Paul II)
... How do we now the moral law? Genesis 1:26-27 Only man is made in the image and likeness of the eternal God who created the universe. We have spiritual souls, intellects and wills. Like God we can know and love. We can receive god’s Spirit into our souls. We are capable of one day living in unimagina ...
... How do we now the moral law? Genesis 1:26-27 Only man is made in the image and likeness of the eternal God who created the universe. We have spiritual souls, intellects and wills. Like God we can know and love. We can receive god’s Spirit into our souls. We are capable of one day living in unimagina ...
Evangelical Models of Ethics
... The story of Samson whereby he committed a divinely approved suicide despite the moral prohibition against killing a human being (“do not kill”) in Judges 16:30; Jephthah’s sacrifice of his daughter in Judges 11 even though one is not to kill an innocent life; the choice between lying and not helpin ...
... The story of Samson whereby he committed a divinely approved suicide despite the moral prohibition against killing a human being (“do not kill”) in Judges 16:30; Jephthah’s sacrifice of his daughter in Judges 11 even though one is not to kill an innocent life; the choice between lying and not helpin ...
Any Absolutes? Absolutely!
... what is morally right for me. And what is right for me may be wrong for another and vice versa. This theory is morally unacceptable because it implies that an act can be right for someone even if it is cruel, hateful, or tyrannical. Further, if this theory were put in practice, society would be rend ...
... what is morally right for me. And what is right for me may be wrong for another and vice versa. This theory is morally unacceptable because it implies that an act can be right for someone even if it is cruel, hateful, or tyrannical. Further, if this theory were put in practice, society would be rend ...
The second sandarbha, called Bhagavat
... “The place of fearlessness and spiritual happiness can be reached by pure virtue (Sattvam = Divine healing energy i.e. divine transformative love). The Yogi of devotional love considers this mode to be a DIRECT manifestation of Your personal Divine, but they never consider "Raja-Guna" (exploitative ...
... “The place of fearlessness and spiritual happiness can be reached by pure virtue (Sattvam = Divine healing energy i.e. divine transformative love). The Yogi of devotional love considers this mode to be a DIRECT manifestation of Your personal Divine, but they never consider "Raja-Guna" (exploitative ...
Shafer-Landua and Ethical Subjectivism - K
... 1. Suppose God legislates the moral rules. 2. Either He does so because these are the right rules, or not. 3. Suppose not. 4. Then God’s commands are arbitrary, and supply no authoritative moral reasons for actions (at most the reasons are prudential—one serve’s one’s best interests by obeying them; ...
... 1. Suppose God legislates the moral rules. 2. Either He does so because these are the right rules, or not. 3. Suppose not. 4. Then God’s commands are arbitrary, and supply no authoritative moral reasons for actions (at most the reasons are prudential—one serve’s one’s best interests by obeying them; ...
Plato
... • And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. – Genesis 2:7 • When Gentiles, who do not possess the law, do instinctively what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves. They ...
... • And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. – Genesis 2:7 • When Gentiles, who do not possess the law, do instinctively what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves. They ...
A New Kind of Dualism - David Banach Saint Anselm College
... An ethics of infinite love would also mean that we can never meet the infinite obligations that our love places on us. Once you start caring about the hunger of children, you will find that there are more of them than you can even think of, let alone feed. Once you allow yourself to feel the infinit ...
... An ethics of infinite love would also mean that we can never meet the infinite obligations that our love places on us. Once you start caring about the hunger of children, you will find that there are more of them than you can even think of, let alone feed. Once you allow yourself to feel the infinit ...
Freedom, Morality, and Grace
... Freedom does not mean we can do whatever we want as long as nobody gets hurt- this leads to moral relativism, the false belief that there is no objective good or evil Freedom does not mean all options are equal; nor that our actions do not have consequences With freedom comes responsibility ...
... Freedom does not mean we can do whatever we want as long as nobody gets hurt- this leads to moral relativism, the false belief that there is no objective good or evil Freedom does not mean all options are equal; nor that our actions do not have consequences With freedom comes responsibility ...
Notes on Jamieson, chapter 2
... Hobbesian solution to the problem of a “war of all against all.” Morality, then, is a “pattern of behavior” that enables social cooperation and reciprocation among individuals. ...
... Hobbesian solution to the problem of a “war of all against all.” Morality, then, is a “pattern of behavior” that enables social cooperation and reciprocation among individuals. ...
The Moral Virtues
... But we should always remember that Christ’s dying and rising offers us new life in the Spirit, whose saving grace delivers us from sin and heals sin’s damage within us. Thus we speak of the value, dignity, and goal of human life, even with its imperfections and struggles. Human life, as a profound ...
... But we should always remember that Christ’s dying and rising offers us new life in the Spirit, whose saving grace delivers us from sin and heals sin’s damage within us. Thus we speak of the value, dignity, and goal of human life, even with its imperfections and struggles. Human life, as a profound ...
CHAPTER 8 The Basics of Catholic Morality
... Virtues and Other Helps to Live a Moral Life Precepts of the Church 1. Attend Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation and rest from servile labor 2. Confess your sins at least once a year 3. Receive the Sacrament of Eucharist at least during the Easter season 4. Observe the days of fasting and a ...
... Virtues and Other Helps to Live a Moral Life Precepts of the Church 1. Attend Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation and rest from servile labor 2. Confess your sins at least once a year 3. Receive the Sacrament of Eucharist at least during the Easter season 4. Observe the days of fasting and a ...
Introduction to Philosophy
... S knows p if and only if: (1) S believes p, (2) p is true, and (3) S is justified in believing p. The Gettier Problem: It appears that there are counterexamples to the JTB account that show that justified true belief is not sufficient for knowledge. ...
... S knows p if and only if: (1) S believes p, (2) p is true, and (3) S is justified in believing p. The Gettier Problem: It appears that there are counterexamples to the JTB account that show that justified true belief is not sufficient for knowledge. ...
Divine command theory - University of Notre Dame
... One thing that the divine command theorist can say is that goodness can be explained in terms of the nature, or essence, of God. Perhaps what is good and bad can be explained by reference to how God essentially is, rather than by what commands God issues. This idea also helps to respond to a related ...
... One thing that the divine command theorist can say is that goodness can be explained in terms of the nature, or essence, of God. Perhaps what is good and bad can be explained by reference to how God essentially is, rather than by what commands God issues. This idea also helps to respond to a related ...
Are There Objective Values and Ethics?
... very different creatures with a very different set of values might well have evolved. By what right do we regard our morality as objective rather than theirs? To think that human beings are special is to be guilty of specie-ism, an unjustified bias toward one’s own species.” William Lane Craig, Reas ...
... very different creatures with a very different set of values might well have evolved. By what right do we regard our morality as objective rather than theirs? To think that human beings are special is to be guilty of specie-ism, an unjustified bias toward one’s own species.” William Lane Craig, Reas ...
Powerpoint5B. - People Server at UNCW
... • Rejects other theories: • Theories that are based on authority • Theories that are theistic/essentialist • Theories that are “objective” or universalist or “rationalist” ...
... • Rejects other theories: • Theories that are based on authority • Theories that are theistic/essentialist • Theories that are “objective” or universalist or “rationalist” ...