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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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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
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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.
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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.
Conditions of a Gust "aw %t must promote the common good The burdens which the law imposes on
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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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(hat tell them to do)the laws of the government, theChurch, the parents, the
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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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STATES OF CONSCIENCE
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