Sources of morality

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Please discuss “who has the right to do what” and “which source of morality is the right one to follow”
 
Pag_Hingowa said:
Please discuss “who has the right to do what” and “which source of morality is the right one to follow”
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Truth ought to be the source of morality. Who is Truth? Jesus. He taught us how to live morally - Love God and Love Neighbor.
 
davidv said:
Truth ought to be the source of morality. Who is Truth? Jesus. He taught us how to live morally - Love God and Love Neighbor.
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Well being im not to where i believe in Jesus, i have a prob there, BUT i do believe that if your good to yourself & to others your living the good life, as it was ment to be right ?? so its the same thing i guess, right ???
 
I voted and was pleased to see that 100% voted for God.

Then I saw that I was the first person to vote :o
 
St_Francis said:
I voted and was pleased to see that 100% voted for God.

Then I saw that I was the first person to vote :o
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:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Up to six votes and God still wins.:)😃

I believe our morality comes innately from God (even of we don’t consciously realize it). It can be *reinforced *by our reason, “gut feeling”, and scrupulosity, as well as by others.
 
I am unsure of your question, so I will make several points. First, the traditional “sources” of morality are listed as the object, intention, and circumstances. But given your poll choices, I don’t think you are looking for that answer. Here is a Catholic Catechism quote to support this point:**1750 **The morality of human acts depends on: - the object chosen;
  • the end in view or the intention;
  • the circumstances of the action.
    The object, the intention, and the circumstances make up the “sources,” or constitutive elements, of the morality of human acts.
    Second, it must be pointed out that free will is a basic element or a type of principle of morality in that it makes us play on a moral field, where *our *decisions are right or wrong. Third, you may be questioning if moral judgments are based upon principles rather than feelings, social conventions, majority opinion, etc. If so, Catholics think they are based upon principles.
Fourth, you may be wondering if God made up those principles and forced them on us from the outside, making them somewhat arbitrary and irrational to us. Those principles are not arbitrary to us, no. They are based on what fulfills us, and that is determined by what humans are. We are as we were created, though, so you could argue that since God created us the way we are, then he made the rules by dint of having made us to be the way we are,
 
The sources of our understanding of moral truth:
  1. Faith based on Tradition, Scripture, and the Magisterium
  2. Reason based on natural law
Conscience is not a source of moral truth, but a search for, and application of, moral truth based on the above sources.
 
scarletgirl said:
Well being im not to where i believe in Jesus, i have a prob there, BUT i do believe that if your good to yourself & to others your living the good life, as it was ment to be right ?? so its the same thing i guess, right ???
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Not really… one thing about the way Catholics look at this is they take into consideration the state of a person’s immortal soul.

As an example, society today does’t think that sexual activity outside of marriage is wrong. A lot of people think a person can have sex–not too much (whatever counts as too much)–and still “be a good person.”

Catholics look st this and see that someone who does this is committing at least one mortal sin–if they use birth control, then that would be two mortal sins–as well as tempting others or being complicit in the sin of another as well.

It is easier to see this if one takes the issue of bank robbery. Society in general doesn’t think bank robbers are “still good people,” even if they do send flowers to their mothers. Moreover, the bank robber who talked someone else into going along and committing the robbery with them would be considered bad, and the person who agreed to go along with someone who would not have committed the robbery without a partner would also be considered to be doing something wrong, each aside from the robbery itself, no?

We see the same thing with sexual activity outside of marriage.

The problem is that society’s view of what constitutes “being a good person” is left up in the air, and seems to be getting more open every year!

Christ talked about how it is easy to love one’s family and friends–even the pagans do it; it is natural to do it. What is much harder is loving one’s enemies! A lot of times we call someone a good person because they take care of their elderly parents, but that is natural, even the pagans do it. What constitutes an even better person is the one who loves his enemies.
 
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