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The recipient anthropology and the personal development of the agent…
The
recipient
anthropology and the personal development of the agent
Two
poles
of the moral life
Freedom
Law
Stages of moral development
1) Learning rules we experience law as something external to combat in us the defects of sin
2) An internalization of the law as one grow to increase the awareness of the correspondence between precepts and our aspirations
3) The stage of maturity and self- mastery, the Spirit who infuses us into our acts their full moral and spiritual excellence
Acts have two types of principles: Causes or Sources
Freedom of excellence
Takes up the question of happiness and the absolute good
At our human essence we long for happiness and love
The desire for happiness is itself a spark of the divine image within us.
The natural desire to see God
Kant
Safeguard the excellence of the act of intention by making it pure obedience to the categorical imperative
Moral imperative would retain their validity even if God did not exist
Danger is that virtue loses it's formative role and becomes a habit
Two distinct conceptions of happiness
One belonging to the domain of the senses
Other belonging to the moral and spiritual level
Freedom of indifference
Freedom of the human person
The freedom of God
No natural bond that connects them
Obedience to law has priority over love
Pleasure or Joy
Joy is lasting and lifegiving
Joy is the essential condition for the renewal of moral theolgy
Pleasure is brief, variable, and superficial