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Moral Absolutes : Catholic Tradition, Current Trends, and the Truth Pere Marquette Lecture in Theology ; 1989
author
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May, William E.
publisher
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Marquette University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0874625440
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9780874625448
ebook isbn13
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9780585141572
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English
subject
Philosophy--Ethics and moral philosophy
publication date
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1989
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BJ1249.M22 1989eb
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241/.042
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Philosophy--Ethics and moral philosophy
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The Pre Marquette Lecture in Theology 1989
Moral Absolutes
Catholic Tradition, Current Trends, and the Truth
by William E. May Ordinary Professor of Moral Theology The Catholic University of America
Marquette University Press Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Dedicated to the memory of Paul Ramsey, a great Methodist theologian, and John R. Connery, S.J., a masterful Catholic theologian, both staunch defenders of the truth of moral absolutes
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 88-64163
Copyright 1989 Marquette University Press Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233 All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
ISBN 0-87462-544-0
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Foreword
The 1989 Pre Marquette Lecture in Theology is the twentieth in a series commemorating the missions and explorations of Pre Jacques Marquette, S.J. (1637-75). This series of annual lectures was begun in 1969 under the auspices of the Marquette University Department of Theology.
The lecture series is endowed by the Joseph A. Auchter Family Endowment Fund. Joseph Auchter (1894-1986), a native of Milwaukee, was a banking and paper industry executive and a long-time supporter of education. The fund was established by his children as a memorial to him.
The 1989 lecture was delivered at Marquette University on April 9, 1989, by Dr. William E. May, Ordinary Professor of Moral Theology at the Catholic University of America. Born in 1928, Professor May began his career as a philosophical and theological editor, working principally with the Bruce Publishing Company in Milwaukee. In 1968 he completed a doctorate in philosophy at Marquette University. He has taught at the Catholic University of America since 1971.
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Professor May has written or co-authored more than a dozen books, including Becoming Human: An Invitation to Christian Ethics (1975); Human Existence, Medicine, and Ethics (1977); Sex, Marriage, and Chastity (1981); Catholic Sexual Ethics (1985); and The Teaching of Humanae Vitae: A Defense (1988). His many scholarly articles address such issues as the natural law, Thomas Aquinas's moral thought, contemporary fundamental moral theology, and marital, sexual, and medical ethics. The recipient of numerous academic awards and honors, including the 1980 Cardinal Wright Award from the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars and the 1983 Thomas Linacre Award from the National Federation of Catholic Physicians' Guilds, he is currently a member of the International Theological Commission and president of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars.
In this lecture Professor May argues that there are absolute moral norms that unconditionally proscribe specific kinds of human action. After finding that the Catholic tradition from the early church through Vatican Council II has consistently affirmed the existence of moral absolutes, Professor May
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considers and evaluates the reasons many contemporary Catholic moral theologians give for denying that moral absolutes exist. He concludes that since none of these reasons is persuasive, and since we determine our moral identities through our free actions, we should recognize the existence of absolute moral norms permitting only those actions compatible with human good and proscribing any action that would make us evildoers.
RONALD J. FEENSTRA
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Acknowledgments
I wish to acknowledge my gratitude to the faculty of the Department of Theology, Marquette University, for inviting me to give the Pre Marquette Theology Lecture for 1989. Professor Ronald J. Feenstra of Marquette took great care in preparing my manuscript for the printer and made numerous suggestions to help the text flow more smoothly. Marquette's Professor Wanda Cizewski also made many helpful suggestions and corrections. I wish here also to thank particularly Germain Grisez and John Finnis, not only for their scholarly and enlightening writings on the subject of moral absolutes but also for their friendship, support, and help. I am also, of course, grateful to my wife, Patricia, and my children for their constant support and encouragement.
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Moral Absolutes Catholic Tradition, Current Trends, and the Truth
The expression "moral absolutes" designates moral norms that identify certain types of action which are possible objects of choice as always morally bad, and specify those types of action without employing in their description any morally evaluative terms. Deliberately killing the innocent, having intercourse with someone other than one's spouse (i.e., adultery), making babies by in vitro fertilization or by artificial insemination, and using contraception are examples of types of action specified by norms of this kind. Although these norms, and others like them, are proposed as true by the magisterium of the Church, their truth is denied by many contemporary moral theologians. These norms are called "absolute" because they unconditionally and definitively exclude specifiable kinds of human action as morally justifiable objects of choice. They are said to be true semper et pro
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