Contingent/Prudential Moral Issues

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Bubba_Switzler said:
Your first quote included what I was meaning:

Emphasis mine.

It’s not my purpose to defend “situatianal ethics” (I don’t pretend to be expert on it) and perhaps it is as narrowly defined as you’ve defined it.

My point is simply that we live in a world of particulars, not generalities. Murder is always wrong but whether a particular incident constitutes murder is, at least in part, a function of circumstances. And whether a particular act constitutes caring for the poor is even more contingent on circumstances.
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Right and that must be taken in the context of the whole there in the Catechism…as you read further it is noted that all three must be good…and where it states that a circumstance can not make an evil into a good…

Yes I admit that certain “circumstances” or even “intentions” can to into the definition of a “particular moral object” but that is determining the object “murder is the unjust taking of a life” or the “taking of an innocent life”…they are embedded as it were and are part of object…but they are not the “circumstances” that is meant there.

That whole section is very important and good reading.

But yes Prudence is the virtue that helps us to apply the truths we know…such as the teachings of the Church to particular events and circumstances etc in life. It helps us determine the right way to put that truth into life…to live it in the here and now.
 
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