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Deontology and Teleology: An Investigation of the Normative Debate in Roman Catholic Moraltheology

Deontology and Teleology: An Investigation of the Normative Debate in Roman Catholic Moraltheology

Salzman, T. a.

Paperback

Series: Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, Book 120

General ReferenceBible StudiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 9068317210
ISBN13: 9789068317213
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Jan 1 1995
Pages: 555
Weight: 2.12
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
The consideration of normative ethics and methodology is a
relatively recent phenomena in Catholic moral theology. Similar to any nascent
discussion, having adopted terms and concepts from one conceptual genre,
Britisch-analytic philosophy, into a radically other genre, Catholic moral
theology, one then needs to begin the work of clarifying how, and to what
extent, those terms and concepts contribute to the overall project of moral
theology as a science. As Pope John Paul II's encyclical Veritatis Splendor
attests, this incorporation has met with a great deal of resistance based on
misunderstandings of the nature and purpose of normative ethics and methodology.
Deontology and Teleology is a pioneer account which exposes and clarifies many
of the terminological and conceptual ambiguities inherent to this discussion. It
begins with an investigation of C.D. Broad's meta-ethical division of
theories into deontology and teleology, and the epistemological/ontological
foundations on which he established this division. An analysis of how and why
Broad's theory has been incorporated into Catholic discussions on the
foundation and formulation of norms along with the inherent difficulties of such
an incorporation is then taken up. Finally, this study argues and substantiates
through detailed historical analysis that a fundamental difference between
traditionalists and revisionists in their relative perspectives on norms rest in
the traditional understanding and moral evaluation of the human act,
specifically, the objectum, circumstantiae and finis (fontes moralitates). This
is an indispensable resource work for those interested in fundamental moral
theology and lays the foundation for pursuing further the complex question of
normative ethics in Catholic moral theology.

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