Ethics I and II

Question 1

Natural Law

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

Human Law

Answer 1

If they command unjust things, their subjects are not obliged to obey them

Question 2

Natural Law

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

Synderesis Rule

Answer 2

Do good and avoid evil

Question 3

Natural Law

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

Natural Law - intro statement

Answer 3

To the Natural Law belongs everything to which man is inclined according to his nature

Question 4

Natural Law

John Finnis

‘Basic forms of human flourishing’

Answer 4

A theory of moral action for our day

Question 5

Natural Law

Romans 2:15

Natural Law = Intrinsic

Answer 5

The requirements of the law are written on their hearts

Question 6

Natural Law

Hugo Grotius, On the Law of War and Peace

NL does not fully depend on God

Answer 6

Would have a degree of validity even if we should concede that… there is no God

Question 7

Sexual Ethics

Mark 10:12

Marriage

Answer 7

What God has joined let no one separate

Question 8

Sexual Ethics

1 Corinthians 7:9

Extra-marital sex

Answer 8

It is better to marry than to be aflame with passion

Question 9

Sexual Ethics

Leviticus 20:13

Homosexuality

Answer 9

If a man lies with a lan as he does with a woman, both have committed an abomination (then says they should get the death penalty)

Question 10

Sexual Ethics

Humanae Vitae

Contraception and Homosexuality

Answer 10

Every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life

Question 11

Sexual Ethics

CCC

Homosexuals

Answer 11

They must be accepted with respect

Question 12

Sexual Ethics

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

Homosexual sex is against the natural order

Answer 12

Contra ordinem rationis

Question 13

Sexual Ethics

Leviticus 20:10

Adultery = death penalty

Answer 13

If a man commits adultery… both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death

Question 14

Sexual Ethics

John 8:7

Adultery can be forgiven - Fletcher’s golden thread of agape?

Answer 14

Let the one without sin cast the first stone

Question 15

Sexual Ethics

1 Corinthians 6:9

Homosexuality - and translation contraversy

Answer 15

[Homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom of God]
Malokoi = soft - passive sexual partner? Effeminate? or homosexual?

Question 16

Sexual Ethics

J.S.Mill, On Liberty

Only time a government can exercise power over people is to…

Answer 16

Prevent harm to others

Question 17

Sexual Ethics

W. Norman Pittenger, Towards a Theology of Gay Liberation

Homosexuality should be allowed since…

Answer 17

Present in all cultures
(Equally as fulfilling)

Question 18

Sexual Ethics

Immanuel Kant, Lectures

Homosexual sex

Answer 18

Demeans man below the beasts

Question 19

Situation Ethics

Joseph Fletcher, Situation Ethics

Conscience

Answer 19

The traiditional error lies in thinking about conscience as a noun instead of a verb

Question 20

Situation Ethics

Joseph Fletcher, Situation Ethics

Relativism and teleological

Answer 20

Give me a real case

Question 21

Situation Ethics

Joseph Fletcher, Situation Ethics

Justice

Answer 21

Justice is love distributed

Question 22

Situation Ethics

John 14:15

Against Fletcher’s interpretation of Bible

Answer 22

If you love me, keep my commandments

Question 23

Situation Ethics

Matthew 22:37-39

What is the most important commandment

Answer 23

Love the Lord with all your heart… and love your neighbour as yourself

Question 24

Situation Ethics

Matthew 25

Agape in salvation

Answer 24

[The parable of the Sheep and the Goats]

Question 25

# Situation Ethics Richard McCormick | Fletcher is bad - SE conclusion

Answer 25

Fletcher's contribution is intellectually dissatisfying and systematically underdeveloped

Question 26

# Situation Ethics Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Freedom is bad for society

Answer 26

Nothing has ever been so intolerable to man and human society as freedom

Question 27

# Situation Ethics Ernest F. Kevan | NT and Legalism - against Fletcher

Answer 27

The New Testament teaches unambiguously that the Ten Commandments are still binding upon all men

Question 28

# Conscience Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica | Conscientia

Answer 28

It is a judgement of reason derived from the natural law

Question 29

# Conscience Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica | Conscience and sin

Answer 29

He who acts against his conscience always sins

Question 30

# Conscience CCC | Conscience

Answer 30

It formulates its judgement according to reason

Question 31

# Conscience Romans 2:15 | Natural Law

Answer 31

The requirements of the law are written on their hearts

Question 32

# Conscience John Henry Newman | Conscience = God x2

Answer 32

Messenger from God I salute the Pope, but I salute conscience first

Question 33

# Conscience Vincent MacNamara | Conscience = attitude

Answer 33

It is not so much that I have a conscience that I am a conscience

Question 34

# Conscience Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics | Natural Theology (vs Aquinas)

Answer 34

The finite has no capacity for the infinite

Question 35

# Conscience Sigmund Freud | Psychosexual development is at the root of it all

Answer 35

Sexual desire is the prime motivating drive in all humans

Question 36

# Conscience Sigmund Freud | Moral responsibility

Answer 36

There is nothing in psychoanalysis that refutes this ordinary, everyday meaning of moral responsibility