6-Latest Norms of Morality

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NORMS OF MORALITY

LAWCONSCIENCE


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LAW

AN ORDINANCE OF REASON PROMULGATED FOR THE COMMONGOOD

BY ONE WHO HAS CHARGE OF THE SOCIETY


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ORDINANCE OF REASON

LAW ORDERS AND DIRECTS HUMAN ACTS TOWARDS THEIR END

LAW FLOWS FROM REASONABLE WILL:FROM THE ILLUMINED UNDERSTANDING OF THE WILL OF AN END


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REASON RECOGNIZES WHAT ISGOOD

GOOD IS WHAT WE OUGHT TOFOLLOW

LAW MAKES US FOLLOW WHAT ISGOOD


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PROMULGATED FOR THE COMMON GOOD

LAW IS MADE KNOWN TO THOSE WHO ARE BOUND BY IT

W IS NOT MEANT TO IMPOSE HARDSHIPS OR NEEDLESS RESTRICTION

TRUE LAW TENDS TO MAKE MEN GOOD,LIBERATES MEN FROM PERVERSE AND MISTAKEN JUDGEMENTS

LEADS THEM TO THEIR ULTIMATE END


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Contribution of Moral Laws

They provide the objective criteria for our ownconscience to judge what is morally good orevil.

They help our moral development, especiallyin the formation of our conscience.

They oer the needed moral stability in ourlives

They challenge us to stretch for an ideal

beyond our limited experience, and correctour moral misconceptions in the process.

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Eternal Law

The plan of divine wisdom as directing allacts and movements.

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The universal law whereby od directs andgoverns the universe and the ways of thehuman community according to 0is plan ofwisdom and love.

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NATURAL LAW

THAT MORAL ORDER(A DIRECTIVE, ORDERING MAN TOWARDS ULTIMATE END)

WHICH ARISES FROM THE NATURE OF MAN AND CREATIONAND WHICH CAN BE RECOGNIZED BY MAN’S REASON.

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Natural Law

The rational creature6s participation in theeternal law.

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%t is the ternal "aw as ;nown to man byhis reason. There is a way human life should be lived

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reason. Fundamental xpression of 'atural "aw

+o good, avoid evil.


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Properties of Natural Law

/niversal %t binds every man at all times and in all

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/nchangeable There is a constant in human nature which

remains throughout all historical andcultural change.

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human authority may give a dispensationfrom it.

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Kinds of Law

ternal "aw 'atural "aw

2ositive "aw +ivine 2ositive "aw cclesiastical 2ositive "aw Civil 2ositive "aw

vangelical or 'ew "aw


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2ositive "aw

"aws created by human beings whichcan enjoin speci@c obligations uponindividuals. +ivine 2ositive "aw cclesiastical 2ositive "aw Civil 2ositive "aw


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Properties of Human Law

nforceable 0as the coercive power of the law

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secure the social order and the common good. "imited to particular groups

0uman laws oblige only those who are membersof the community for which the laws areenacted.

0istorically conditioned 0uman laws change as societies and

civili?ations change 0as presumptive obligatory force

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Evangelical or New Law:

The Law of the pirit The 'ew law is called a law of love because it

ma;es us act out of love infused by the 0oly$pirit, rather than from fearB a law of grace,because it confers the strength of grace to act,

by means of faith and the sacramentsB a law offreedom, because it sets us free from the ritualand juridical observances of the &ld "aw,inclines us to act spontaneously by theprompting of charity, and @nally, lets us pass

from the condition of a servant to that of afriend of Christ or even to the status of sonand heir 7CCC D!E9.

The content of this new law responds to theobligation of the Christian to shape his lifeaccording to Gesus Christ.


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!ust Law

enerally, an unjust law does notoblige.

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%t must not exceed the power of itshuman authors.


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"arious notions of Conscience

Feeling of guilt, worry,dissatisfaction, restlessness or afeeling of when they do

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Two basic element of conscience

D. -oral judgment that discerns whatis right and wrong.

. -oral obligation or command to do

good and avoid evil


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CONSCIENCE IS A PRACTICAL JUDGMENT

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REFERENCE TO AN ACTION THAT NEEDS TO BE DONEOR AVOIDED

• IT IS A REASONING PROCESS THAT ALWAYS ENDS IN JUDGMENT

THAT COMMANDS, FORBIDS, ALLOWS, ADVISES

• CONSCIENCE IS A DICTATE: DO THIS, DO THAT*


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