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Emerging Issues in Fundamental Morals

The world has understood and explained morality in different ways. The book says that it is the completion of something that we are deficient in or miss in our lives. The right judgment, based on values, depending upon the situation will lead us in the way of moral perfection. The issues crop up in the case of morals when satisfaction of an individual is completely subjective and understood only in relative terms. The author has elaborated the pastoral social ethical psychological and philosophical dimensions of the Morality as to get an unambiguous idea of its importance.

About the Author

Dr Felix Podimattam is one of the best-known moral theologians in India and outside. Besides his full time job as a professor, he finds time to write books at an amazing rate. He has authored 90 books. Besides his Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Mysore, he holds a Licentiate in Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, and subsequently a Doctorate in Moral Theology from the Alphosian Academy, Rome, His postdoctoral studies were pursued in Washington, DC, U.S.A. At Present he is professor of moral theology at St. Francis Theological College, Kottayam, Kerala.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE

EMERGING ISSUES IN MORALITY IN GENERAL 11

1. What is Morality?

2. Relation between Morality and Value

2.1. Nature of Value

2.1.1. The Notion of Importance in General2

2.1.2. Importance and Motivation4

2.1.3. Categories of Importance5

2.1.4. Notion of Value

2.2. Classification of Value

2.3. The Primacy of Value 15

2.4. Properties of Value

2.5. Value and Beingl7

2.6. Value and Truth

2.7. Value and Beauty

2.8. God and Values 19

2.9. The Good Tidings of Values21

2.10.Role of Value in Man’s Life24

2.11. Nature of Moral Value26

3. The Three Spheres of Morality

The Sphere of Acts or Responses

4. The True Norms of Morality

5. The Christianity of Human Morality

6. Moral Living and Christian Discernment

8. The Morality of Koinonia

9. Kenosis Morality

9.1. Kenosis and Personal Ethics

9.2. Kenosis and Social Ethics

9.2.1. Law and Kenosis

9.2.2. Kenosis in the Economic Sphere

9.2.3. Kenosis in the Political Sphere

9.2.4. Kenosis in the Interpersonal Level

9.3. The Need for a Related Theology

9.3.1. Kenotic Conceptions of God

9.3.2. The Hard Core: Self-Renunciation.
CHAPTER TWO

EMERGING ISSUES IN MORALITY AND PASTORAL PRACTICE

1. Friendship and the Moral Life

2. Traditional Moral Theology and Pastoral Theology

3. Moral Norm of Responsibility

4. Moral Norm of Human Fulfillment

‘ 5. Moral Norm of Shared Moral Experience

5.1. Experiential Basis of Moral Judgments

5.2. Ethics is an Attempt to Apply Foundational Moral Experience to Life.

5.3. Content of Moral Experience

5.4. Application of the Norm to the Area of Sexual Ethics..

5.5. Pastoral Reflections

6. Moral Luck

7. Moral Development and Psychological Development

Level A. Pre-conventional

Level B. Conventional Level

Level C. Post-conventional and Principled Level

8. Probabilism

8 l. Nature of Probabilism

8.2. Defence of Probabilism

8.3. Limitations of Probabilism

8.4. Other Moral Systems.

9. The Reality-revealing Questions in Moral Investigation252

9.1. What? and the First Cognitive Contact

9.2. Why? and How? and Ends and Means

9.3. Who? The Question of Person

9.4. When? and Where?

9.5. What are the Viable Alternatives?

9.6. The Link with the Future: The Question of Foreseeable

Effects

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ENDNOTES