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| Moral Law 1: On the NATURE of the good and the real. What are the points under |
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1. The good is the end in itself.
2. The good is not virtue
3. The good is not happiness
4. The good is one
5. The good is clear
6. The good is based on the real
7. It is clear that only some is eternal |
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| Moral Law 1: On the ORIGIN of the concept of the good. |
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The good is grounded in human nature, in the reality of choice.
Choice assumes values and values assume the good, the highest value.
What is chosen is chosen either for its own sake, which is the good, the end in itself, or, chosen as a means to the good. |
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| Moral Law 1: On the NATURE of the good and the real. Explain the good is the end in itself |
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It is chosen for its own sake, not for the sake of anything else.
It is the highest value (the summum bonum), the source of unity, the moral absolute. |
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| Moral Law 1: On the NATURE of the good and the real. Explain how the good is not virtue |
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Virtue is a means to the good.
There are different kinds of virtues: moral , natural, and instrumental. |
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| Moral Law 1: On the NATURE of the good and the real. Explain how the good is not happiness |
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Happiness is the effect of possessing what we believe is the good |
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| Moral Law 1: On the NATURE of the good and the real. Explain how the good is one |
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As the source of unity in a person and among persons, there is one good for each person and one good for all persons.
There is one good for each person.
If there were more than one good for each person, there would be no rational basis for choice. |
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| Moral Law 1: On the NATURE of the good and the real. Explain how the good is clear |
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The good as based in human nature is easily knowable.
It is objectively clear, knowable by all who can be held morally responsible, apart from cultural background. |
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| Moral Law 1: On the NATURE of the good and the real. Explain how the good is based on the real |
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One’s view of the good is based on one’s view of human nature, which is based on one’s view of what is real or eternal. |
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| Moral Law 1: On the NATURE of the good and the real. Explain it is clear that only some is eternal |
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There must be something eternal.
Matter exists and matter is not eternal.
The soul exists and the soul is not eternal.
What is eternal brought into existence, or created, what is not eternal.
The creator is God. |
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| Moral Law 1: What is the Law? |
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God, as creator of human nature, is the determiner of good and evil for man. |
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| Moral Law 1: Application: What is opposed in Moral Law 1? Give the Points Under it. |
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i. Theism is opposed to all forms of non-theism.
ii. Objective clarity is opposed to all forms of skepticism (nothing is clear) and fideism (belief without understanding or proof).
iii. Subjective clarity is opposed to emotivism and voluntarism.
iv. Theonomy is opposed to all forms of autonomy.
v. The moral law is opposed to heteronomy.
vi. The moral law is opposed to positivism.
vii. Teleology is opposed to deontology and consequentialism. |
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| Moral Law 1: Application: What is opposed in Moral Law 1? Explain how Theism is opposed to all forms of non-theism. |
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Belief in God the creator is opposed to atheism, pantheism, polytheism, and shamanism, as well as to material monism, spiritual monism and dualism. |
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| Moral Law 1: Application: What is opposed in Moral Law 1? Explain how Subjective clarity is opposed to emotivism and voluntarism. |
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It is opposed to the view that feelings and will are independent of and can be opposed to what one understands; that knowledge is not sufficient for morality; that knowledge of the truth does not set one free. |
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| Moral Law 1: Application: What is opposed in Moral Law 1? Explain how Theonomy is opposed to all forms of autonomy. |
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God as the determiner of good and evil is opposed to all forms of man, understood apart from God, as the determiner of good and evil.
Theonomy is opposed to ethical egoism (individual happiness), utilitarianism (collective happiness), deontology (will guided by reason alone), existentialism (will apart from rational determination), naturalism (individual instinct), tradition (collective instinct), humanism (human nature as a whole understood apart from God), stoicism (denial of desires), mystical contemplation (knowledge apart from understanding). |
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| Moral Law 1: Application: What is opposed in Moral Law 1? Explain how The moral law is opposed to heteronomy. |
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The law, given in human nature and knowable by reason, is opposed to the view that the law is given by an external source, independent of reason.
It is opposed to the claim that the law is known only by special revelation. |
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| Moral Law 1: Application: What is opposed in Moral Law 1? Explain how The moral law is opposed to positivism. |
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The moral law, given in human nature is opposed to the divine command theory, that the law is arbitrary or positive, that whatever God commands is good, apart from human nature. |
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