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Aims at the deepest reality, the most substantial hidden existing reality in the beloved-- a mataphysical center, deeper than all the qualities and essences which one can discover and enumerate in the beloved

Love

The you that is the object of love

Person

Motive nobler than mere dutu or obligation for doing good, and the manispring of all virtues

Love

Is essentialy the hatred, the rejection, or the turning away from good.

Evil

Means the doing of good and the practice pf virtue.

Ethics

First law of nature which means self-love

Self-preservation

Aa violation of the first law of nature

Suicide

Who alone s the supreme domination over life and death

God

Is not the absolute ownwr of his life: he just borrowed it, so sad to say, and so has no right to dispose of it as he wills.

Man

It is never selfish. It always shares its goodness to another

Love

"There are only 2 words in the vocabulary of love: now and forever."

Fulton Sheen

Commands us to love our neighbors because all men have the same human nature; all have a common origin and destiny

Moral law

Love is defined by ______ as the very current of life

Confucius

It is the very language of the bible

Love

Two foundation stones of morality

Love and justice

Ia a moral virtue which comes as a fruit of the constant and proper observance of rights and duties.

Justice

The constant will and disposition to give each one his due

Justice

Principle of rectitude and fairness in men's relation with each other

Justice

The imposition of wrong on another; it also means the violation of the rights of another or others.

Injustice

Two essential attributes of justice

Universality and Equality

Is an element of justice which requires that justice be applied to all, and not merely to a particular group or class: and that everyone is bound to give to everyone what is his due

Universality

Is a fundamental principle of justice which demands that justice is for all regardless of station or quality in life.

Equality

It signifies the law must be applied to all wothout discrimination

Equality

"Do unto others as you wish others do unto you"

Golden rule- positive

"Do not do unto others what you what you do not want to be done unto you"

Golden rule-negative

First commandment and is a dictate of plain justice

Love God above all

______ in our constitution embody our fundamental rights such as the right to life, liberty and thr pursuit of happiness

Bill of rights

These rights and their correlatives emenate from the principle of justice

Bill of rights

Duties of the state to the citizens

Distributive justice

Duties of the individual to the state

Legal justice

Duties of an individual to another

Commutative justice

The state must fulfill certain duties towards its citizens. These duties are clearly stated in our Constitution

Distributive justice

The citizen in turn has his duties to the state; for instance, to render military service to the state

Legal justice

Every individual should render to another that which belongs to him. The basis of this is the so-called mutualoty of rights and duties

Commutative Justice

It follows from the principle of love and justice that it is wrong to do anything harmful to the body, reputation and property of others

Duties of justice

Is destined by nature, and, therefore, has the natural right to live; and no human authority can destroy it

Fetus

Or mercy killing

Euthanasia

Practice of administering painless death to one suffering from an incurable or loathsome disease, even with the intention to relieve the patient from useless and extremely painful suffering, is not morally jutified on the same ground

Euthanasia

Under certain conditions, it is morally justified to kill an unjust aggresor in ________

Self defense

One of the greatest possessions that a man has

Honor

It is always wrong even if what is said or written against the person is true or partly true; for truth is not justification for this

Libel

A newly-coined word to signify the neferious practice of extorting money which consists in suppressing the publication of an article deregatory to one's character provided that the intended victim pays a certain amount of money to the publisher

Adstortion

This act has all the malice of extortion and usually involves the malicious intent of libel

Adstortion

One of our duties of love toward our neighbors

Truthfulness or veracity

Is the conformity between what one says and what one has in mind.

Moral truth

Is telling an untruth, telling what is not in one's mind

Lie

It is intrinsically wrong because it is against the natural purpose of speech

Lying

Is a speaking creature; he is given the power of speech in order to be able to live and communicate with his fellow

Man

It tends to disturb the social order, because if men lie, there will be no more mutual trust

Lying

Very basis of harmony and peace in social life

Mutual trust

It does violence to man's social nature and, therefore, is against the moral law

Lying

Making of a statement which would seem a lie wothout qualification but would not be a lie with the proper qualification reserved in one's mind

Mental reservation

Deals with human relations in a community

Ethics

Basis of the whole complexus of human relationships which is the very unit of society

Family

Closest human relations exist among______

Family

Which is the very basis of family life and society demands respect and love for authority

Proper relations

Primarily and mainly due to the lack or neglect of moral guidance and training on the part of parents for their children in the home

Evil of teenagerism

Is accidentaly disrupting family unity and integrity

Modern life

They should not only look after physical and intellectual welfare of their young but also after their moral training which is the most important of all

Parents

It should be given by constant teaching and good example

Moral training

Basis of social unity and it follows that anything destructive or detrimental to family life and unity is likewise destructive of the social and moral order

Family unity

It destroys family unity

Divorce

It means the breaking down of a solemn promise made in marriage; and it is morally wrong to break one's promise

Divorce

Is essentially a contract, a promise made by couple to stick to each other, for good, because love which is the true essense of this must be true and enduring

Marriage

It stifles the very spirit of love which holds the family together.

Divorce

It is against the primary end of marriage which id the proper upbringing of children; for it deprives the children of their right to be supported by both parents especially when they are young

Divorce

It would place the children in such an atmosphere and situation where they can live only one half of their lives

Divorce

It separates what nature has welded together

Divorce

Is discussed nowadays as a means to check the menace of the so-called population explosion and its attendant and consequent evils

Birth control

Is primarily and fundamentally a moral question which should be viewed and answered from the moral standpoint

Birth control

Two types of birth control

Natural


Artificial

It includes continence

Natural birth control

The so called rhythm method

Continence

Includes any device for the purpose of destroying the semen and/or frustrating the end of the sexual act while taking advantage of the pleasure in it.

Artificial birth control

It falls under artificial birth control and involves greater malice

Willful abortion

Sexuality can be considered on a two-fold levels:

Biological(physiological) level


Psychological level

The two sexes appear as essentially directed towards one another and at the same time towards the apparition of a third person, a child.

Biological level

Can be valued on a still higher insight.

Sex

Not brutes are involved but persons, sex becomes penetrated, modified, and elevated by human rationlity and distinctively human emotions.

Psychological level

Sexual union in marriage gets a deeper and, consequently, higher meaning.

Psychological level

It is fostered and manifested in many ways but especially through the particular act of sexual intercourse

Conjugal love

Communion between persons, non-mediated anf direct, symbolizing as well as creating the personal love of each other and their openness to offspring

Sexual union

Natural symbol and expression of love, capable of transmitting life the intrinsic malice of birth control comes clearly to the fore

Intercourse

It belies conjugal love of which sexual union is the symbol and expression. It is the falsification of love

Contraception

Is a periodic continence that limits the family size or spacing of children.

Rhythm method

Requires a painful discipline and can be a more tender and fuller expression of marital love than sexual union.

Continence

It is an act of self sacrifice for the good of others

Continence

It is unethical because it destroys the physiological structure of the two sexes but especially it is wounding conjugal love which is the end and purpose of human sexual relation

Artificial birth control

It does not only mean as many children as possible as if one is only after the maximum quantity but it is more a matter of the quality of children to be raised as human beings that can take their rightful place of service in society

Generous fertility

Means of controlling birth

Pills

It confronts ethics and moral theology with a new situation

Pill

Whose function is simply to regularize an abnormal cycle and which is used for such purpose, seems to be licit, as any normal medicine can be licit, when the method of rhythm is morally advisable

Pill

Whose function is to simply inhibit the ovulation or which it is simply used for such purpose.

Pill

The use of pill method is lawful and agreed upon in _________

Catholic Moral Theology