Chapter 2 notes
Slides do conjunto (7)
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- Responsible for his own sets
- Limited by unique circumstances of each person's lives
- True love is a free gift of oneself that leads to self-mastery
- Conscience is the practical application of objective moral law to concrete circumstances
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- If it is taken or required, it is no longer free.
- Self giving is hard- over come laziness, selfishness sensuality, and stinginess
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- True freedom is doing what you ought
- Good moral actions= freer
- Bad moral actions= slave to sin
- Every moral being is responsible for his or her own moral actions
- Deliberation and choice has a moral content, affects the character of the person
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- Moral knowledge= more morally responsible
- Freedom requires responsibility
- Moral evil= reject God's moral law
- What are the effects of the graces we receive through the sacraments?
- Enlightens us to know what's right
- Does grace diminish freedom?
- No, helps us see the truth more clearly
- How do we align our will with God's?
- Prayer use of of freedom with the help of grace
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- Witnessed through sacred scriptures and through human experience
- Right and a duty to exercise our moral conscience
- good=moral truth
- not an infallible guide and can be ignored or blinded
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- We must continually seek God's grace, continually...
- How is a conscience formed?
- Practice frequent and honest self- examinations
- Sacrament of Reconciliation
- Numb to wrongdoing and ceases to function as it should
- Called by Baptism to become a saint
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- An action the results from a deliberate choice between good and evil, or degrees of goodness.
- Envolves both deliberate and choice
- Moral content (yawning)
- Personal act- involve intellect and true will, never leaves exactly the same.