Readings Guide and Key Points Week6 part 2:

Moral Reasoning

Fundamental Proposition: the earth is a good and orderly place; it bears the mark of a good an loving God who created it.

Two stains of interpretation: natue as physical, nature as rational.

Moral Reasoning: Room to Imagine

Philip Keane, SS

A play between our two ways of knowing

Two checks for the moral imagination are experience and community

Casuistry

Moral Reasoning: truth from the Margin

Liberation theologies

Love and Moral rules

Three types of Love in Ancient Greece

Philia, Eros, Agape

Philia - Brotherly Love

Eros - Passionate attachment

Agape - Total unconditioned

Love as Virtue

Limits of love

Augustine “love and do what you will.”

Love and Law

Two kinds of rules

Positive

Negative or Commanding

Intentionality

Virtually exceptionalness

Natural Moral Law

Old testament Method

New Testament Method

New Methods

Emotive, Consequentialist, deontological, mixed consequentialist