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Experiential sources: Conscience, natural moral law, traditional…
Experiential sources: Conscience, natural moral law, traditional principles. What is the relationship with human experience?
“[the Sermon on the Mount] conforms to the often contrasting movements of the deep intelligence of the human heart revealed in human experience.”
The Fathers of the Church “adopt the four classical cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, courage, and temperance"
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Ockham brings nominalism and “moral theology focused more and more on the relationship between law and liberty, viewing it from the perspective of obligation.”
What happened to virtue? “one notes immediately the disappearance of the treatise on happiness and the ultimate end, as well as the absence of a treatment of the virtues and the gifts. Moreover, a treatise on conscience has been inserted that will henceforth occupy a central place.”
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“The principle method in morals...is to reflect on the act itself and on its free source within us, which is made known to us interiorly […] “moral knowledge is essentially normative. More than a science, it is a wisdom.”
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“Moral science considers all things from the perspective of the good, taking as its rules the precepts of the natural law. The task of this science is to apply these precepts judiciously and effectively in concrete actions, seeking to assure their excellence and perfection.”
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