ETHOS

MORES
HAVE GUIDELINES TO FOLLOW
Ethos
The disposition, character, or
fundamental values peculiar to
a specific person, people,
culture, or movement


Mores
The accepted traditional
customs and usages of a
particular social group.
Moral attitudes.
Manners; ways.

There are ethos and mores
that govern our needs which
come from our bodily space-
time limitations.
TECHNICAL NORMS
There are ethos and mores that
has to do with the need for group
cohesion and for strengthening
the bonds that keep the
community together,
SOCIETAL NORM
There are ethos and mores
regarding color, shape, space,
movementin the natural and
man-made environment
AESTHETIC NORM.
There are also ethos and mores
that govern things which the
community cherish and consider
of ultimate worth, which give
ultimate sense and direction to
human existence
MORAL NORM.
Why are Moral Norms Needed?
Utilitarianism
The moral worth of an action is solely determined by its
contribution to the overall utility.
Pragmatism
What is moral is that which is practical.
Hedonism
What is moral is that which gives pleasure.
Eudaimonism
What is moral is that which makes one happy.
Atheistic Existentialism
What is moral is that which furthers my interest.
aka MORAL THEOLOGY
Christian Morality
What is it?
It is a theological research which
in light of the revealed principles
studies voluntary human acts in
relation to their final end.
Veritatis Splendor
The first encyclical to spell out the Catholic Churchs
fundamental moral teaching.
provided whats now widely recognized as a
powerful response to the crisis into which Catholic
moral theology fell after Vatican II.
affirms that human reason can identify what the
encyclical calls certain fundamental goods that
transcend the particularities of the here-and-now.
What is it?
Veritatis Spleandor (1993)
It is a reflection on the gospel as the gift and
commandment of new life,
a reflection on the life which professes the
truth in love (cf Eph 4:15)
and on the Churchs life of holiness, in which
there shines forth truth about the good
brought to its perfection.
Moral Theology touches
our sharing in the divine life as complete gift from
the blessed Trinity,
creation and the reasoning creature's place in
creation,
divine governance,
the old dispensation and the new law of grace
revealed in the Incarnation,
the dynamics of Christian faith, hope, and love,
the special states of life within the Church,
the seven sacraments of the Christian Church
Role of moral theology
To guide the intellect in the
acquisition and application of
the moral principles
To compel people to follow the
directions to fulfill their ultimate
destiny.
Paradigms in doing Moral
Theology
Why are Models needed?
formulation, interpretation, and
application of Christian moral principles
are historically conditioned.

Christian existence is historical
existence.

We are not only Christians
are constantly becoming Christians.
Christian existence is a movement
between polarities of principle and
process
of being and becoming
of essence and existence
of universal and particular
of conviction and risk
of substance and form
but not mutually opposed they
requires and includes the other.
Models of Christian Moral Life
Four models has been proposed
for Christian Moral Life in the
Theological literature:
Teleological
Deontological
Relational
Liberational
ORDER LAW PERSON /
relation
LIBERATION
Guiding View



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Moral Life








Fundamental
Question





View of sin
Divine order
of things
Emphasis
on the end
goal
What is
objectively
and truly
good?
Sin is
disorder
God rules all by
will, expressed
in law.
Emphasis on duty,
and obligation in
relation to law.
The deon The teleos
Emphasis on
authentic personal
relationship.
Intimacy,
friendship, and
compassion.
How do I enter into
and sustain
authentic personal
relationship?
What is
lawful?
Sin is the
breaking of
the law.
Sin is broken
relationship
God leads His
people out from
oppression into
liberty.
Emphasis on
casting off
oppressive
structures.
Liberation from
sinful structures
How do I get
involved in
changing sinful
structures in
society?
Sin is
oppression of
others
God relates
with us as a
person
Sources of Moral Theology
Scripture
Tradition
Experience
Reason
The most salient characteristic
of ethics is that it is grounded
in reason and human
experience.
Secular Ethics Religious Ethics
Clarifications about ETHICS
Law
Laws are instituted to
promote well-being i.e,
resolve conflicts of
interest
Some laws are immoral
without denying that
they are valid laws.
Religion
Moral precepts are
grounded in revelation
or divine authority.
Gods revelation of the
moral law in nature or
conscience holds that
reason can discover
what is right or wrong
even apart from divine
revelation.
General Goals of Catechesis/Theology
ORTHODOXY -correct understanding of the
Faith.
ORTHOPRAXIS -is the correct
application of the Faith in moral living
and in worshipping.
Living the challenges & demands of
faith with the support of prayer &
sacraments.

Integration of:
Doctrine, Morals, Worship
TOTAL,
Integral
FAITH
BELIEVING

DOING,
Obeying
Entrusting,
WORSHIPPING
TOTAL,
Integral
FAITH
BELIEVING
OBEYING,
Doing
WORSHIPPING
Entrusting
Dogmatism
Activism
Ritualism
Pious Activism
Ideological Activism
Ideological Ritualism
UST STUDENT HANDBOOK
Page 92
Thomasian Students are hereby expected, in
the exercise of their rights and in the
performance of their obligation, whether
inside or outside the campus, to respect and
act in accordance with the principles,
traditions and ideals that are authentically
Filipino and Catholic. They must abide by the
rules of conduct and discipline formulated by
the University.
Page 92, last paragraph
The following Policies and Procedures are
expected to be observed by bona fide
Thomasian students at all times, even when
they are outside the campus especially when
they are wearing the prescribed uniform
Page 93
#1. HONESTY
a. & g. Forging, altering and/or misuse of
documents, records (dates, signatures,
practicum, clinical internship)using another
persons ID
c. Cheating in exams, projects, homework
d. Plagiarizing
e. Untruthful statements





Page 93-97

#5. DECENCY & MODESTY IN ACTION
a. Inappropriate public display of affection, like
torrid kissing, necking, petting;
b. Preparing, publishing, bringing immoral,
obscene, or pornographic.
d. Uttering vulgar words or bad words
f. Cohabitating w/o the benefit of marriage
Reality bites
There are
laws that are
not moral
(lawful but
not moral)
but they are
legal.
There are
things that
are not
promulgated
as laws but
are moral.
Not everything that is legal is ethical or
moral.
It doesnt follow that if it can be done it
should be done.
No court, no legislative body, no person
can sanction what God has condemned.
Right is right no matter how few believe it,
and wrong is wrong no matter how many
practice it.

Insights about the following
Insights about the following
A person may have acted unethically but
we may not conclude that he/she is truly
immoral.

An unethical act can be immoral already.

The END does not justify the means.



A person may be ethical but not
moral. - Not everything that is
ethical is moral

Example: IVF (Invitro Fertilization)
Clarifications about morality
DESCRIPTIVELY
To refer to a code of
conduct put forward
by a society or some
other group, such us
a religion accepted
by an individual for
his/her own
behavior.
NORMATIVELY
To refer to a code of
conduct that, given
specified conditions,
would be put
forward by all
rational persons.
The term MORALITY can be used either:
Is there objective morality?
Is morality not subjective?
Personal Morality Social Morality
Is stealing bad thats why God says so
Reason
Experience
God said so thats why stealing is bad
Scripture
Tradition
Why should we be moral?
One should be moral because
Morality is that which sustains
life.
Sin is that which destroys life.
Morality is the standard of
human relations.
One should be moral because
Morality is constructivity
Sin is destructivity.
Morality is solving problems;
Sin is creating problems.
Joshua 1:6-9
be strong and stand firm and be careful to
keep all the Law which my servant Moses laid
on you.
Never swerve from this to right or left, and
then you will be happy in all you do.
Have the book of the Law always on your lips;
meditate on it day and night so that you may
keep everything that is written in it.
Then you will prosper in your dealings, then
you will have success.
Prayer
Lord,
Give me a pure heart,
That I may see you;
Give me a humble heart,
That I may hear you;
Give me a heart of love,
That I may serve you;
Give me a heart of faith,
That I may abide in you.