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Responding to Love in Love
Human Acts & the Virtuous Life
Happiness
• "Our Hearts are Restless Until They
Rest in You"
From the Confessions
Saint Augustine of Hippo
• God alone constitutes man’s happiness.
Summa Theologiae
Part II/1, Question 2. On what constitutes human happiness
Article 7. Whether some good of the soul constitutes man’s happiness?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McvCJley78A
Happiness & Goodness
• Why are you so good?
• Morality of Obligation
• Morality of Happiness
• What are the motivations for being
good?
Evaluating Actions
• Determining Good or Bad
• “Bonum ex integra causa,
malum ex quocumque
defectu," -- " A thing to be
good must be wholly so; it
is vitiated by any defect.“
or “An action is good when
good in every respect; it is
wrong when wrong is any
respect.”
Three Fonts of Human Act
1. Object (Act Itself)
2. End (Motivation | Intention)
3. Circumstances
Motive: « THE WHY »
"the path to Hell is paved
with good intentions."
Intentions: Give Actions
Meaning
• Morality of
Obligation
• Morality of
Happiness
• What are the
motivations for being
good? Character?
• Effect: (In)Transitive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry7_FcSiQL8
The Range of Roots of Morality
Absence of
Ethics
The
Criminal
“I KILLED HIM
AND I DON’T
CARE”
The
Delinquent
Relativism
Normative
Relativism
Consequentialism
Utilitarianism
Descriptive
Relativism
Most Pleasure
Individual
Relativism
Greater Net
Happiness
Accepted
Practices
Based On :
Consequences
Outcomes
Duty Ethics
(Absolutism)
Virtue
Kantian – Duty
Aristotle
Truth
Honor
Justice
Character
Rights
Habituation
Divine Law
Stoicism
Natural Law
“I DON’T CARE
ABOUT THAT”
“CATCH ME IF
YOU CAN.”
Rule Based Moral Theories
Character
Based
To live the “right” kind of life…
How ought I to act?
(question of action)
What kind of person ought I to be?
(question of character)