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-Ethics must recognize that loves are not arbitrary psychological states, but rather are directed moral attitudes which can be right or wrong. Ethical projects fundamentally attempt to unify emotions with those responses required by reason. |
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-Lewis 1 British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist, employed at both Oxford and Cambridge “the Abolition of Man” 1943. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/lewis/abolition2.htm |
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-Until we recognize the underived and primary authority of the good no explanation can proceed ~-~- only the Good can explain why there is something rather than nothing. Your attempt to identify the motivation to be ethical ignores the fact that the ethical is authoritative whether you recognize it or not. |
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-Roberts, John Philosophy professor at FSU, specializes in Modern philosophy and the work of Cudworth, also a professor of Marshall Thompson, which is pretty cool. “Axiarchism and Selectors” Faith and Philosophy 31 (4):412-421 (2014) |
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-Thus, the standard is consistency with the Ordo Amoris, defined as correctly orienting our love and appreciation. |
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-Impact calc: A) Finding the correct orientation of love is hierarchical, not aggregative – if its wrong to betray three friends for money, it is equally wrong to betray a single friend for that price, B) Understanding the good is like understanding beauty. You look at some thing and can appreciate beauty, which develops as you understand aesthetics. Lack of explanation in the abstract does not undermine the existence of beauty. |
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-The vegetative or plant based soul should not be the end of our activity, because it is the form of life furthest from the good. This is because the vegetative is at the lowest level of transcendence of mere matter, and thus furthest from occupying a position of universality and sharing in the good. Additionally, the vegetative soul is common to all animals and humans, and thus we fully pursue the good found in plants by focusing on humans, for all the good of the vegetative soul is equally found co-present in the rational soul. |
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-Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Theologica. Question 78. 1485 http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1078.htm |
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-I answer that, |
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-have said above (I:77:3 ad 4). |