emman FREEDOM AS FOUNDATION FOR MORAL

ETHICS APPLIES ONLY TO HUMAN PERSONS

Unlike the lower form of animals, human persons have a choice or freedom, hence morality allies only to human persons

Dilemmas

presuppose freedom

dilemma

freedom

There is a such thing as a _____ because there is a such a thing as _______&

moral choice

free

Making ____ _______ is a necessary consequence for being ____, a consequence of being a human person.

freedom

responsible

consequences

Because a human person has ___, he/she has a choice and so is _____ for the _______ of his/her choice

bound by instinct

The lower form of animals have no choice since they are ________ and so cannot be held responsible for their behavior.

Culture

knowledge, beliefs, behaviors

is the integrated pattern of human ______, ________&, and ________&

Culture

This consists of language, ideas, customs, morals, laws, taboos, institutions, tools, techniques, and works of art, rituals and other capacities and habits acquired by a person as a member of society,

Nonmaterial culture

language, values, rules, knowledge, and meanings

consists of ________, _____, _____, _________ and ________ shared by members of society.

Material culture

society produces

tools, streets, homes and toys

is the physical object that a _______ - _____, _______, _______ _______, to name a few

Culture

learning, genes or heredity

is passed on to the next generation by ______ not through the _________.

Enculturation

process of learning from infancy till death, the components of life in one's culture.

Enculturation

> learning your own culture

Inculturation

missiological process

refers to the __________________ which the Gospel is rooted in a particular culture and the latter is transformed by its introduction to Christianity

Inculturation

> adapting religion to culture

Acculturation

cultural modification, borrowing traits

the ____________ of an individual group or people by adapting to or ___________ from another culture

Acculturation

> adapting to another cuture

RELATIVISM

What is true for you, is true for you, and what is true for me is true for me

Cultural relativism

What you believe, value or practice depends on your culture while what I believe, value and practice depends on my culture