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Our Shared Ways of Thinking, Valuing, and Living (Mores) : Roland Tuazon, CM St. Vincent School of Theology

This document discusses different approaches to moral examination and decision making. It notes that moral perspectives can differ based on circumstances, attitudes, standards, historical periods, and other factors. It presents several questions that are considered in moral examination, such as whether an action conforms to moral law, helps with human perfection, fulfills duties, has good consequences, and has acceptable motivations. The document explores these questions from the perspectives of sacred texts, human experience, tradition, and other lenses. It advocates considering the dignity and rights of all people, as well as concepts like the common good, subsidiarity, participation, preferential option for the poor, and social and personal moral teachings.

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Our Shared Ways of Thinking, Valuing, and Living (Mores) : Roland Tuazon, CM St. Vincent School of Theology

This document discusses different approaches to moral examination and decision making. It notes that moral perspectives can differ based on circumstances, attitudes, standards, historical periods, and other factors. It presents several questions that are considered in moral examination, such as whether an action conforms to moral law, helps with human perfection, fulfills duties, has good consequences, and has acceptable motivations. The document explores these questions from the perspectives of sacred texts, human experience, tradition, and other lenses. It advocates considering the dignity and rights of all people, as well as concepts like the common good, subsidiarity, participation, preferential option for the poor, and social and personal moral teachings.

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OUR SHARED WAYS

OF THINKING,
VALUING, AND
LIVING
(MORES)

Roland Tuazon, cm
St. Vincent School of1Theology
 DIFFERENT
CIRCUMSTANCES/MOTIVATIONS
 DIFFERENT ATTITUDES/PERSPECTIVES
 DIFFERENT STANDARDS/SOURCES
 DIFFERENT PERIODS/HISTORICAL
CONSIDERATION

Roland Tuazon, cm
St. Vincent School of2Theology
Is it right
or wrong?
Is it valid
or not?
Moral Is it just
EXAMINATION or not?

OF

OUR WAYS OF THINKING,


VALUING, AND LIVING
MORES/MORALITY
CHRISTIAN
Ana is a 12 year old kid, the eldest of five (5) children who live
in a shanty along the ‘riles’ with their bedridden mother.
Two years ago, the father who used to provide for the family
as a taxi cab was robbed and killed by carnappers. As a
result, the mother got very depressed and sick and the
children had to drop out of school. Being the eldest, Ana had
to work by selling Sampaguita in the street. Her meager
income could hardly meet the daily requirement for survival
of her much younger siblings and sick mother. Some of her
older friends in similar situation have earned a lot more by
engaging in prostitution. Ana is considering this option now
so that she could more adequately help her family and go
back to school.

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 What can you say about the case?

 How do you morally assess Ana and


her options?
SACRED TEXTS NORMATIVELY
HUMAN

HUMAN
EXPERIENCE
TRADITION OF
THE COMMUNITY

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Did the person do Are the
his duty—doing consequences
an action that is of the actions
universally good?
acceptable?

People look at every moral case from


particular—different and even conflicting— Are the
perspectives motivations
acceptable?

Does the action


conform to the
moral law given Does the action help
by God? the person perfect
him/herself as a
person?
Does the action help
the person perfect
him/herself as a
person?

EUDAIMONIA
WELLBEING
HAPPINESS

ARETE VIRTUE
HUMAN AS COULD BE
IF S/HE REALIZED
HUMAN AS S/HE-IS HER/HIS TELOS
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Does the action conform to
the moral law given by
God?

DIVINE LAW

• Centrality of the Torah and the Covenant


• Justice for the weak, oppressed, strangers,
etc.
• Emphasis on appointed authority
Did the person do his duty—
doing an action that is
universally acceptable?

Doing always one’s duties and


obligations
Principles of universality, autonomy
and each person as a end
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Are the
consequences
of the actions
good?

 Maximization of the good (pleasure) for the


greatest number of people
 Quantitative and Qualitative sense of pleasure

Roland Tuazon, cm
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St. Vincent School of
Are the
motivations
acceptable?

 Motivation, Love, Intention, etc. are what really


matters in any moral deliberation.
 The Human Person Adequately Considered

Roland Tuazon, cm
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St. Vincent School of
PAKIKIPAGKAPWA-TAO

SOCIAL ETHICS
AND THE SOCIAL TEACHINGS OF THE
CHURCH
GOD’S LIBERATING ACTION
IN HISTORY
Roland Tuazon, cm
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JESUS CHRIST, THE FULFILLMENT OF THE
FATHER’S PLAN OF LOVE

Roland Tuazon, cm
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THE HUMAN PERSON
IN GOD’S PLAN OF LOVE
Roland Tuazon, cm
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St. Vincent School of
GOD’S PLAN AND THE
MISSION OF THE CHURCH

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Human Dignity and Rights
as Belonging to All

“The Church sees in men and women, in every


person, the living image of God Himself. This
image finds, and must always find anew, an
ever deeper and fuller unfolding of itself in the
mystery of Christ, the Perfect Image of God,
the One who reveals God to man and man to
himself.” Compendium # 105. We are all equal
in dignity in the eyes of God.
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CST’S RESPONSE
Private Property Common Good

THE HUMAN
Subsidiarity Participation
PERSON
WITH DIGNITY Preferential Option
Solidarity AND RIGHTS for the Poor

Truth Love Justice Freedom

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Private Property and the Common
Good Universal Destination of
Goods
“Christian tradition has never recognized the right to
private property as absolute and untouchable: ‘On
the contrary it has always understood this right
within the broader context of the right common to all
to use the goods of the whole of creation: the right to
private property is subordinated to the right to
common use, to the fact that goods are meant for
everyone’.” (Laborem Exercens 14, AAS 73 (1981), 613;
see also Compendium
Roland Tuazon, cm
# 177.
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Subsidiarity
“The principle of subsidiarity protects people
from abuses by higher-level social authority
and calls on these same authorities to help
individuals and intermediate groups to fulfill
their duties. This principle is imperative
because every person, family, and intermediate
group has something original to offer to the
community.” Compendium # 187

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Participation

“The characteristic implication of subsidiarity is


participation, which is expressed essentially in a
series of activities by means of which the citizen,
either as an individual or in association with
others, whether directly or through representation,
contributes to the cultural, economic, political and
social life of the civil community to which he
belongs. Participation is a duty to be fulfilled
consciously by all, with responsibility and with a
view to the common good.”
Gaudium et spes 75
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Preferential Option for the Poor
“The principle of the universal destination of goods
requires that the poor, the marginalized and in all
cases those whose living conditions interfere with
their proper growth should be the focus of
particular concern. To this end, the preferential
option for the poor should be reaffirmed in all its
force.”
Compendium 182

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St. Vincent School of Theology 24
Catholic Moral Teachings

Social teachings
(involving all of society)

Personal teachings (involving each


individuals' call to live a moral life)
Social teachings have to do with the social order, with
what we often call "social justice." This is based on the
dignity of human beings created by God and on a focus on
the common good of all. Over the last century there have
been many papal encyclicals on social justice, enumerating
the rights of all people to a just wage, freedom from
oppression, fair treatment, freedom from discrimination,
adequate food, shelter and clothing, etc. Such issues were
included in the Second Vatican Council's Pastoral
Constitution on the Church in the Modern World
(Gaudium et spes). These recognize that working for
justice in the social arena is not something extra, but an
intrinsic part of living the gospel. If we are not doing
something, we are not fully living the gospel!
The individual teachings are based on trying to help
individuals be the kind of person a Christian is called to
become. Again, this is not a light or easy undertaking.
Rather than following a set of rules, we are called to
constant conversion: a process by which our whole life is
shaped by the gospel message. We are to make God the
center and source of our being. We are to allow ourselves to
be transformed by that redemptive, healing presence of
God and then allow God to continue to work through us to
redeem and heal others and the whole world, enemies as
well as friends, the outcasts as well as the respectable, the
poor as well as the rich, sinners as well as the righteous; a
constant process of conversion.
Tapos na!

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