This document discusses different types of moral laws:
1) Objective and eternal laws that come directly from God's divine reason and will.
2) Natural moral laws that are written in people's hearts and recognize basic moral principles like doing good and avoiding evil.
3) Revealed divine laws from scripture like the 10 Commandments.
4) Human-made laws by governments and churches that should conform with and promote natural law for the common good. Moral laws order human acts towards their proper end as determined by reason.
This document discusses different types of moral laws:
1) Objective and eternal laws that come directly from God's divine reason and will.
2) Natural moral laws that are written in people's hearts and recognize basic moral principles like doing good and avoiding evil.
3) Revealed divine laws from scripture like the 10 Commandments.
4) Human-made laws by governments and churches that should conform with and promote natural law for the common good. Moral laws order human acts towards their proper end as determined by reason.
This document discusses different types of moral laws:
1) Objective and eternal laws that come directly from God's divine reason and will.
2) Natural moral laws that are written in people's hearts and recognize basic moral principles like doing good and avoiding evil.
3) Revealed divine laws from scripture like the 10 Commandments.
4) Human-made laws by governments and churches that should conform with and promote natural law for the common good. Moral laws order human acts towards their proper end as determined by reason.
This document discusses different types of moral laws:
1) Objective and eternal laws that come directly from God's divine reason and will.
2) Natural moral laws that are written in people's hearts and recognize basic moral principles like doing good and avoiding evil.
3) Revealed divine laws from scripture like the 10 Commandments.
4) Human-made laws by governments and churches that should conform with and promote natural law for the common good. Moral laws order human acts towards their proper end as determined by reason.
OBJECTIVE SUBJECTIVE - Law - Conscience CCC 1949 Called to beatitude but wounded by sin, man stands in need of salvation from God. Divine help comes to him in Christ through the law that guides him and the grace that sustains him:
“Work out your own salvation
with fear and trembling; for God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.” – 1Phil. 2 :12-13 LAW
Binding rule of conduct which aims to give shape
and direction to our freedom. Laws are indispensable aids for man in his endeavor to give meaningful to his life and to protect it from chaos. = not primarily a burden = a relief - frees a person from the arduous task of elaborating moral norms (cf. Peschke, 2012, 64.) ETERNAL LAW “The divine reason or the will of God commanding that the natural order of things be preserved and forbidding that it be disturbed.” - St. Augustine ETERNAL LAW
ETERNAL LAW -is the
plan of God in creating the universe and assigning to each creature therein specific nature. ETERNAL LAW PROPERTIES: (Panizo, 55) 1. Eternal and unchangeable as the Author Himself – GOD. 2. It is absolutely universal for it rules all things and actions either, either free contingent and necessary MAN ALONE MAY REFUSE THE DIRECTION OF ETERNAL LAW
As a bodily being, man acts in accordance with physical laws
In matters that lie under man’s free control
man may refuse the direction of eternal law 2. NATURAL MORAL LAW (NATURAL LAW) Man’s share in the Eternal Law of God. The natural law is corollary to the eternal law. 2. NATURAL MORAL LAW Man’s share in the Eternal Law of God. The natural law is corollary to the eternal law.
Written in the hearts of
men. (Rom. 2:15) NATURAL MORAL LAW We recognize that there is a component to human makeup not present in other creatures: the awareness of justice. not merely believers in God make this appeal to self-evident moral norms, but that everybody does it, including atheists. - Mark Shea, The Human Person and Morality PROPERTIES OF NATURAL LAW ( CLASSICAL OR TRADITIONAL VIEW) 1. Universal – common to all persons, of all times, in all places. 2. Obligatory – it imposes upon men the moral obligation to follow it as necessary condition to attain the last end or happiness. 3. Recognizable. 4. Immutable/unchangeable. CONTENTS OF THE NATURAL LAW A. FUNDAMENTAL B. GENERAL MORAL MORAL PRINCIPLES PRINCIPLES, which Good is to be done and sustain and preserve basic evil is to be avoided relations to God, himself, and to neighbor. Do unto others what you would want others do unto you. CONTENTS OF THE NATURAL LAW C. Applications of the general principles of morality to specific situations in life and society.
D. Remote Conclusions derived by a process of reasoning. Writings, customs, and monuments of the past and present generations point out to this conclusion:
All peoples on earth, no
matter how savage and illiterate, have recognized a supreme law of divine origin commanding good and forbidding evil. HISTORY, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND NATURAL LAW Most human races from the past and present cultures have known the general principles of natural law… is ultimately ratified by a Supreme Being or by deities. SOPHOCLES, ANTIGONE The unwritten statutes of heaven which are not of today but from all time and no man knows when they were first put forth. TULLIOUS CICERO True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting… we cannot be freed from its obligations by senate or people. We need not look outside ourselves for an expounder or interpreter of it. 3. REVEALED DIVINE LAW - Those promulgated or made known to us by special command of GOD.
- Moral laws revealed to us by GOD
- (10 commandments, 8 Beatitudes, the teaching
on the law of love by Jesus) MORAL LAW AS REVEALED LAW OF THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW TESTAMENT
The Old Law is the first
stage of revealed law. Its moral prescriptions are summed in the Ten Commandments. (CCC 1980) The Old Law is a preparation for the Gospel. (CCC, 1981)
It is overflowing with wisdom THE LAW OF THE LORD The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul. The decree of the Lord is trustworthy, giving wisdom to the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart. The command of the Lord is clear, enlightening the eyes. . The ordinances of the Lord are true, and all of them just. (Ps 19;8-10) 4.HUMAN MADE LAWS
LAWS ENACTED BY : A. STATE OR CIVIL LAW B. CHURCH OR ECCLESIASTICAL LAW
A HUMAN LAW DERIVES ITS BINDING
FORCE FROM NATURAL LAW AND ULTIMATELY FROM ETERNAL LAW
A CONCRETE AND DETERMINATE
APPLICATION OF NATURAL LAW LAW
Binding rule of conduct which aims to give shape
and direction to our freedom. LAW According to St.. Thomas Aquinas
-AN ORDINANCE OF REASON -
-PROPERLY PROMULGATED- -DECREED BY COMPETENT AUTHORITY- -FOR THE SAKE OF THE COMMON GOOD- A. CIVIL LAW - - are human made decrees of civil government binding its citizen. They are often particular applications of natural law.
- a law promulgated by a legitimate human authority and institutions for the welfare of the society. CIVIL LAWS To protect you from outside aggression or harm (robbery, assault, etc.) 2. To establish the rules needed for a society to live and work together (traffic laws, contract law, etc.) 3. To protect the fabric of society as agreed upon by the voice of the people or their representatives (pornography laws, marriage laws, drug laws, etc.). 4. To ensure that justice has been served. 5. To punish people who commit crimes. 6. To maintain social order. PROPERTIES OF HUMAN LAW 1. Human law must conform with the Divine laws. 2. Human laws must promote the common good. 3. Human law must be just and not discriminatory of certain individuals or groups. 4. Human laws must be practicable. 5. Human laws are fallible. 6. Human laws must be dynamic, allowing for adjustments in accordance with the emergent ideas of development. B. CHURCH/ECCLESIASTICAL LAW -they are expression of Divine law as it is applied to a particular circumstances of Christian life. CHURCH LAW WHICH ARE PERTINENT TO THE STUDY OF MORALITY
1. The fundamental 4. The marriage law of
understanding of the Church. human person and 5. The specific teachings human life’s purpose of the Church on moral and destiny. issues, 2. What constitutes 6. The Social Teachings freedom and will of the Church. 3. The role of the family in the formation of the youth and in the formation of society. Can. 1752 “ …the salvation of souls, which must always be the supreme law in the Church, is to be kept before one’s eyes.” HW: NATURAL MORAL LAW Expound on the existence of a natural moral law. How can you explain and convince your peers the existence of a natural moral law (awareness of justice, self-evident moral norms) Give sample cases that exhibit the properties of natural law LAW ORDERS AND DIRECTS HUMAN ACTS TOWARDS THEIR END
LAW FLOWS FROM REASONABLE WILL:
FROM THE ILLUMINED UNDERSTANDING OF THE WILL OF AN END REASON RECOGNIZES WHAT IS GOOD GOOD IS WHAT WE OUGHT TO FOLLOW LAW MAKES US FOLLOW WHAT IS GOOD
