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Love

1. Act of the will

2. Requires sacrifice

Faculties/Three parts of the soul

1. Will

2. Intellect

3. Passion

Intellect must rule passion and will

Four ethical experiences

The scream: A sudden cry for help

The beggar: being brought to action by the needs of another

The obligation: Desire to obey authority

The intolerable: Desire to correct injustice

Aristotle’s Cardinal Virtues

• Justice, prudence, courage, fortitude, temperance 

Teological Ethics

Has to do with the purpose/design of something, in order to obtain good we must follow the path of rational thinking

Deontological ethics

Kant and our duty/obligations

Ethical maxims, our duties to other people

Levinas and the ethics of the face

Trace of God in each other’s faces

Conceptual framework of action

WHO
WHAT
WHY
HOW
OUTCOME

CIA

Circumstance

Intent

Action

Naturalism:

The belief that our current actions are motivated by our nature, we are not truly free, we are ruled by our nature

REligious determinism

We are not truly free, God has provdience

Social detemrinsm

We are not responsuble for our actions, our circumstances are

True freedom

God’s providence does not interfere with our freedom, we are free because God lvoes us

Six aspects of hte human person

1. Others

2. Direction in life

3. Communication

4. Character and body

5. Conscience

6. Developing conscience

Three sense of conscience

1. Conscience as recognizing right from wrong

2. Conscience as moral reasoning

3. Conscience as judgement

The importance of the other

The trace of the face is in the other, all human actions are relational in natur. Caring for others is a medium to attain our own personal freedoms

Symptoms of misinformed conscience

1. Rationaliziation

2. Trivliation

3. Misinformation

   1. The ends justify the means

4. Difficult to reaosn

Types of conscience

1. Well formed

2. Misinformed

3. Lax

   1. Legalistic

Types of guilt

1. Unwarranted

2. Warranted

3. Too little guilt

4. Excessive

Ethics vs Morality

The question of what it means to be good vs what actions signify goodness

Plato’s good life

We cannot find good itself, we can only find things that are good. THe closest to good is contemplation. We find good through reason

Aristotle’s good life

Happiness results from the fulfillment of one’s human nature,

according to perfect virtue. People constantly seek good and good can only be found in God.

St. Pauls Goods

People desire to be good, God and virutes are the highest good

Kant

Happiness is found through authority

What makes a happy person

Development of virtues, relationships

Goods

1. Sensible

2. Intellgible

   1. Life

   2. Knowledge of truth

   3. Leisure

   4. Sociability

   5. Religion

   6. Integrity

   7. Marriage

Appetites

Concuspiable: Pleasure appetite, sense desire 

Irascible: Aggressive appetite, feelings of fear, anger and dearing 

13 Ethical Principles

1. Do Good, avoid Harm

2. Do others as you would like on you

3. Ends do not justify means

4. In doubt, don’t

5. Lesser of two evils

6. Three font, using CIA

7. Balance all rights and responsibilities

8. Totality, utilitarianism

9. Cooperation, good if overbalancing good?

10. Probabilism, use Jesus when unsure

11. Follow Nature

12. Human life has dignity

13. Moral relativity vs objectivity