Jos Todol Duque

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José Todolí Duque

• Putting New Questions
• to an Old Tradition

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Student

• Navarre 1915-1999
• Studied at Oxford, Louvain, Sorbonne Walberberg
• Doctorates in theology at Angelicum philosophy
  at Madrid Universities
• 1945 Secretary of Luis Vives Institute of
  Philosophy of Consejo superior de Investigaciones
  Cientificas
• Pioneer in Philosophy of Religion in Spain

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Philosopher of Religion

• Filosofía de la Religión (1955)
• history, including RC orthodox distrust
• facing modernist arguments, drawing on Aquinas
• Phenomenon of religion
• transcendence, reality, holiness
• Basis of religion
• Ontological, axiological, dynamic
• Noetics of religion
• rational, instinctive, willed
• Religion as virtue
• awareness by rational creatures, reverence, part
  of justice
• the will guides people to the divinity

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• of those obscure natural tendencies, of those
  experiences in whose entrails we find as a
  correlative of the same to God the only possible
  explanation justification of His existence, in
  the same way as when we study our religation with
  God, from the point of view of intelligence, we
  also encounter God as a correlative of our
  insatiable aspiration to truth.

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Labour

• Filosofía del Trabajo (1955)
• Characteristics of labour
• transformation, utility, obligation
• definition useful dutiful human activity
• Classification of labour
• starting from Aristotles Politics
• harvesting, economic, organising, moral,
  intellectual
• Duty right to labour
• our need to co-operate, develop potential
• our link in the chain of beings ecological
• duty to give back to society (UDHR), social value

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• All of the process, from the pure possibility
  when one is born, up to the perfection of the
  personality.. .taking Gods assistance always
  into account, results from ones labour. One
  sanctifies oneself in ones work with things, in
  ones daily job.

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Common Good

• El Bien Comun (1953)
• faces question of ends means still relevant
• from destructive C20th ideologies to
• Thomistic humanism inspired by CST
• Nature Dignity of the Person
• Human person is where spiritual material unite
• in relationship with God others
• Supremacy of Common Good in Society
• state (material good) church (spiritual good)
  not opposed but in co-operation need authority
  organisation
• Individual State
• State aims to achieve social justice through
  positive law
• Limited by inalienable rights, values freedom
  of the person

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• The state should watch over social justice for
  both workers and employers so that, if justice
  reigns, peace may reign everywhere in the peace,
  security and wealth which make up the material
  common good, which in turn prepares the common
  good in all orders.

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Medical Transplants

• La Ética de los Transplantes (1968)
• 1960s transplants a novelty new moral
  challenge radical thought at the time
• Surgeons must defend life wherever it may be
  to the very end
• Good, even heroic act to sacrifice a non-vital
  organ for another - e.g. one kidney
• No moral obstacle to heart transplants if death
  of the donor patient is certain

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Moral Consciousness

• Sociología y Moral Lecture as John Paul II Chair
  (1971)
• Against Durkheims positivist collective
  consciousness morality innate to humans
• Spanish 1970s religious moral crisis
• confusionism, precipitative judgement, activism
• context of political transition
• Liberty must be understood as a capacity by
  humans, as against other beings, to fulfil their
  own end consciously responsibly
• Urgent need to recover sense of meaning for human
  existence

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