Catholicism Vs Catechism

In the reading “God and Morality,” Steven M. Cahn focuses on some problems with the claim that a theological conception of right and wrong suffices as a basis for moral reasoning. Cahn says that there is no way for us to know what actions God wants us to take. We don’t

The experiences we have in our lifetime shape us to be who we are. Every experience can be taken and used to change our perspectives and help broaden our horizons. Sin and virtue play a small part in the direction of an individual’s life, as I see it. I have learned that they must be defined for oneself, not by following the directions of a divine being. Basing decisions off of anything but what you know to be true from personal experience can be risky. Each individual person must act as their own leader. It is only fair to love and respect yourself before you conform to any laws that say you shouldn’t.

According to Abelard morally wrong action are distinguished by four things. First, there is a mental vice that makes us prone to sin, such as lust and desire, followed second by the sin itself which is dependant on the situation. Third is the will for evil and finally the doing of evil. He holds these separate for “to will and to fulfill the will are not the same, so to sin and to perform the sin are not the same”(2-511-L).

According to Joyce A. Little, the major moral problem that human’s face is that when people attempt to agree upon attacking evil, their different opinions separate their views on identifying exactly what should be right? Little expresses the problem as "we cannot agree on what would be right or good for society...by people whose fundamental views of reality are radically opposed to the Church 's" (23).

1755- A morally good act requires the goodness of the object, of the end, and of the circumstances together. An evil end corrupts the action, even if the object is good in itself (such as praying and fasting "in order to be seen by men"). The object of the choice can by itself vitiate an act in its entirety. There are some concrete acts - such as fornication - that it is always wrong to choose, because choosing them entails a disorder of the will, that is, a moral evil.

Good and evil are concocted differently in every imagination. To some, evil is the most appalling sins, including such heinous acts such as murder, rape, distortion, or betrayal. To others, evil might be something so simple as indecisiveness, extravagance, or vain glory. Goodness is ambiguous to mankind as well because one man might define goodness as the ordinary man living a free life, yet another might conclude that true goodness is obtainable only through a perfect, honorable lifestyle, completely abstaining from worldly endeavors. One’s attitude at good and evil will predetermine their values, actions, and points of interest. Whether life is spent pursuing heavenly goals or the applying oneself to his or her life, their

After researching, the Roman Catholic church and the Westeren Orrthodox church facts compile on the the thought that the several splits between the two and attitudes towards each other could not be resolved. Issues arised because of language barrier, opinions, and intolerance. This theisis will explain facts to prove the strong aversion, and ultimately the split.

When we think about ethical issues, we talk and hear about them frequently. As part of being a Catholic, we often hear about common issues like using contraception, homosexuality, and justice for the poor, sex before marriage along many others. All these ethical issues range from topics like economic justice, Christians and violence, human sexuality, environmental and biomedical ethics and as individuals belonging to different religions there are disagreements. Time also places disagreements on these issues, we are now part of the twentieth century and as Catholics I believe we have different points of view that differ from periods before, in regards to religious standards that we all must follow. For example, before it

The two most prominent things in my life are Catholicism and my education. I am a practicing Catholic and my faith has driven me to become more assistive towards others. I try to help those in need at any opportunity. I also seek to further my education in the field I a most interested in: engineering. I have started to prepare for this career by taking up hobbies that utilize engineering. My goal as a professional engineer is to bring my Catholic standards into my work and focus on creating better ways to help people and make their life less problematic.

Why do we ‘punish’? Why do we feel ‘guilt’? How do we define what is ‘good’, ‘bad’ or ‘evil’? What moves us to make a judgement? In On the Genealogy of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsche makes use of three different essays (“‘Good and Evil’, ‘Good and Bad’”, “‘Guilt’, ‘Bad Conscience’, and the Like”, and “What is the Meaning of Ascetic Ideals?”) that examine similar forms of his major philosophical worry: the various origins and definitions of our different moral concepts and ideas, persistence and progressively grave effects of Christian morality. It is generally hard to evaluate Nietzsche because he displays such an authentic approach to value theory that it is easy to get lost in his vast collection of ideas. In the first essay, “‘Good and Evil’,

7. Kant’s ethics gives us firm standards that do not depend on results; it injects a humanistic element into moral decision making and stresses the importance of acting on principle and from a sense of duty. Critics, however, worry that (a) Kant’s view of moral worth is too restrictive, (b) the categorical imperative is not a sufficient test of right and wrong, and (c) distinguishing between treating people as means and respecting them as ends in themselves may be difficult in practice.

The creation of the idea of ‘responsible evil’ discussed in the first of essay of GM appears therefore to be at the origin of Christian concepts and values of ‘good’, ‘bad’ and ‘evil’ that are still dominant in mentalities to date. In fact, although its consequences affect the slave morality as a whole, it seems that the creation of ‘responsible evil’ is most of all the one of priests . This supports the idea that the successful creation of ‘responsible evil’ has resulted in a spread of Christian influence and authority that still exists in modern societies. What is more, this slave’s invention is at the origin of the concepts of ‘guilt’, ‘bad conscience’, ‘mercy’, and of a God “that commands them [the slaves] to do and be what their weakness requires them to do and be” . In this way, with

Humans are rational beings that use their intellect to try an achieve some sort of sense of the world, in other words truth. Truth is something that can not be denied as false. Since all humans are not part of the same culture, humanity as a whole does not share the exact notion of what is considered to be true. Humanity tries to achieve or know the truth through various outlets or practices. These different belief systems are understood to have been formed from their specific culture. Obviously, humanity has many different cultures and with that comes many different forms of truth seeking. There is one religion that claims to have the fullness of truth. That religion is the faith of Catholicism which means the Universal Church. Through

What is considered evil depends upon each individual’s view of morality, which constantly changes through the course of that person’s life. Roy Perrett’s “Evil and Human Nature” explains this by elaborating on the customary interpretation of moral evil. This evil, caused by an intentional bad action or harm, opposes another type of evil, natural evil, which occurs without

Among the many denominations of Christianity, Catholicism is easily able to support the second premise of the traditional Christian argument from the Vatican’s “Declaration on Some Questions of Sexual Ethics”. The declaration strongly asserts that moral reasoning is not a human construct, but rather it comes from God. God is all-knowing and all-good as his plan for salvation was conceived in “wisdom and love” (Pope Paul VI). God delivered Christ to humanity to save humans from evil, and those who follow Christ will “walk in the light of life”(Pope Paul VI). Christ established the Church, and the church is the pillar of truth, and transmits the truth of