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Moral Demands and Personal Obligations / Josef Fuchs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fuchs, Josef, 1894-1979, author.
- Language:
- English
- Multiple languages
- Subjects (All):
- Christian ethics--Catholic authors.
- Christian ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 218 p. )
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Moral demands & personal obligations.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [1993]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this collection of recent essays (1988-92), all but one previously unavailable in English, noted theologian Josef Fuchs, SJ, examines key issues in normative morality. Identifying two strains, one based on natural law and a more situational one based on the Golden Rule, he explores the need for plurality in both individual and societal ethics, and the problem of universal versus only general validity. Central ideas that Fuchs develops are the concept of innovative morality as the individual's responsible search for God's will in personal situations; and the significance of the conscience in the face of official statements by the church's magisterium. Among the topics he considers are marriage and sexuality; the beginning and end of life; and international solidarity and social justice.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction: The Difficult Golden Rule
- INDIVIDUAL ETHICS
- SOCIETAL ETHICS
- ETHICS OF LIFE
- PART I THE ABSOLUTE IN MORAL THEOLOGY
- 1 The Absolute in Moral Theology
- THE ETHICAL ABSOLUTUM
- PLURAL SYSTEMS OF MORALITY
- CONCRETE: ABSOLUTE OBLIGATION?
- 2 Natural Law or Naturalistic Fallacy?
- INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEM
- NATURALISTIC FALLACY OR NATURAL LAW?
- THE NATURAL LAW OF THE INTEGRAL RIGHTNESS OF HUMAN CONDUCT
- PROPORTIONALISM-ANOTHER NAME FOR NATURAL LAW?
- CONSEQUENCES
- 3 What Responsibility?
- THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION
- RESPONSIBILITY AND VALUES
- RESPONSIBILITY: VALUE-FREE CONDITION AND CONFLICT OF VALUES
- 4 Structures of Sin
- STRUCTURES OF SIN AND ORIGINAL STATE
- STRUCTURES OF SIN AND SIN
- OVERCOMING THE STRUCTURES OF INJUSTICE
- 5 "Soul" and "Ensoulment
- AN INTERPRETATION OF THE STATEMENTS OF CONTEMPORARY BIOLOGY
- EXISTENCE AS A PERSON
- SOUL AND ENSOULMENT IN THEOLOGICAL AND OFFICIAL CHURCH TEACHING
- AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL REFLECTION ABOUT SOUL AND ENSOULMENT
- THE SOUL AND THE FUNDAMENTAL VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE
- PART 2 HISTORICITY AND THE MORAL ABSOLUTE
- 6 Historicity and Moral Norm
- THE HUMAN PERSON AS A "MORAL" AND "HISTORICAL" BEING
- HISTORICITY OF MORAL RIGHTNESS
- NORMS OF MORAL RIGHTNESS
- THE FUNCTION OF THE NORMS OF MORAL RIGHTNESS
- 7 Innovative Morality
- A MORALITY ALREADY IN EXISTENCE?
- IS MORALITY ALWAYS TO BE SOUGHT ANEW?
- A MORALITY FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL?
- MORALITY GUIDED BY THE BIBLE?
- 8 Ethical Problems in the Christian Prayer of the Psalms
- INTRODUCTION
- HUMAN PERSONS BEFORE GOD
- THE GOD WHO WORKS ALL THINGS
- GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE
- GOD AND THE ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE
- CONCLUSION
- 9 The Magisterium and Moral Theology
- INTRODUCTION.
- THE COMPETENCE OF THE MAGISTERIUM IN QUESTIONS OF MORAL THEOLOGY
- MAGISTERIUM MORAL THEOLOGY, AND DOCTRINAL COMMISSION WITHIN THE CHURCH
- THE STYLE OF THE MAGISTERIUM IN ITS RELATIONSHIP TO MORAL THEOLOGY
- THE CONDUCT OF MORAL THEOLOGIANS VIS-À-VIS THE MAGISTERIUM
- PART 3 CONSCIENCE AND MORAL OBJECTIVITY
- 10 Conscience and Conscientious Fidelity
- VARIOUS CONCEPTS OF CONSCIENCE
- CONSCIENCE AS THE VOICE OF GOD
- SUBJECTIVITY AND OBJECTIVITY
- FIDELITY TO THE CONSCIENCE
- THE CONTEMPORARY DISCUSSION
- SEARCHING FOR A SOLUTION: RICHARD A. MCCORMICK
- 11 "The One Who Hears You Hears Me": Episcopal Moral Directives
- THE ETHICAL DIRECTIVES OF THE BISHOPS
- THE BISHOPS AND BIOETHICS
- 12 Ethical Self-Direction?
- 13 The Faithful Must Not Be Unsettled
- THE FAITHFUL
- THE CHURCH'S MAGISTERIUM
- THE CHURCH'S MORAL THEOLOGY
- 14 Spiritual Foundations of the Structural Change in Western Society
- THE SHIFT TO THE FUNDAMENTAL VALUE OF THE "DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
- THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON IN SOCIETY AND STATE
- ABSOLUTE VALUES AND THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
- FREEDOM AND DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
- FREEDOM OF THE PERSON AND CREATURELY NATURE
- DESTRUCTION OR CHANGE?
- 15 Law and Grace: A Theme of Moral Theology
- NEW TESTAMENT TEXTS
- THE PROBLEM: LAW AND GRACE
- ETHICAL CONSEQUENCES
- LAW AND LAWS.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781589019539
- 1589019539
- 9780585211107
- 0585211108
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