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NORM OF MORALITY


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NORM

A standard of measurement.

It is an instrument through which the quality or quan

of a thing is determined.


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MORALITY

From the Latin word MORALITAS meaning manner, character, prop

behavior

It is the differentiation of intentions, decisions and actions between t

that are good (or right) and those that are bad (or wrong)

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Are the standards that indicate the rightfulness or wrong

goodness or evilness, value or disvalue of a thing

These are qualities that cannot be measured by any medevice because they are spiritual qualities that appeal

reason


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The norms of morality are the criteria of judgmen

about the sorts of persons we ought to be and the

of actions we ought to perform

(Richard


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The word ought implies a duty or obligation. It

that a person or his action should possess a

quality or it falls a short of standards.

The phrase criteria of judgmentimplies the use of

in determining the quality being measured.


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BASIS OF MORAL JUDGMENT

The Eternal Law

Is the ultimate norm

The Natural Law

Is the remote norm

Conscience

Is the proximate norm


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THE ETERNAL LAW

St. Thomas Aquinas refers to eternal law as the exem

divine wisdom as directing all actions and movements

93:1)

St. Augustine defines it as the divine reason or will o

commanding that the natural order of things be preserv

forbidding that it be disturbed (Contra Faustum Mani

22:27)


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THE NATURAL LAW

Refers to the operational tendencies of the human

Is the tendency of human nature towards growth a

self-fulfillment


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CHARACTERISTICS OF NATURAL L

1. It is universalbecause it is the human nature which is shared by allThough realized differently according to their respective cultures.

2. It is obligatorybecause the tendencies of our human nature are theour desires and actuations which we cannot ignore without dire

consequences..

3. It is recognizablebecause man, being self-reflexive, is aware of his nof what he is capable of and what is expected of him by his own k


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CHARACTERISTICS OF NATURAL L

4. It is immutable and unchangeablebecause although change is a rule of

human nature in its essentiality and substantiality remains permanent an

unchangeable.


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CONSCIENCE

It is the practical judgment of reason telling us wha

should be done because it is good or what should b

avoided because it is evil.


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TYPES OF CONSCIENCE

1. Correct conscience sees the good as good, the evil as evil. Correct conscomes from enlightenment, from refined moral sensibility, or fromhabit of doing good.

2. Erroneous conscience sees evil as something good. Erroneous conscien

comes from malice, ignorance, bad habits and bad influence.3. Doubtful conscience is a vacillating conscience, unsure of itself.

4. Scrupulous conscienceis overly cautious, meticulous, and fearful of coma mistake.


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TYPES OF CONSCIENCE

5. Lax conscienceis indifferent, umindful of right or wrong.


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Compulsary Conscience


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Conformity and Non-conformity


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Formal and Material Norms


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Physicalism vs Personalism

There are two view points on how moral acts are to be judged on th

of natural law.

1. Physicalismsuggests that the physical and biological nature of mandetermines morality.

2. Personalismsuggests that reason is the standard for moral judgmen


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The Order of Reason


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Moral Pretension

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