Living A

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Living A
Moral Life
An Introduction
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Questions to Answer

• What is Morality?
• Can Morality Really Be Taught?
• Can anyone really tell you what is right or wrong
  for you?
• Why Should We Study Morality?
• Moral Dilemmas as a child
• Main moral decisions that confront most teenagers
• What are the major moral dilemmas facing society
  today?
• Are There Different Stages of Morality?
• Morality of Childhood
• In-Between Morality of Adolescence
• Morality of Mature Adulthood

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Vocabulary Words

• Moral that which is good
• Immoral that which is bad - How people ought
  not to act
• Amoral those actions that are neither good or
  bad
• Decision a conclusion arrived at after
  consideration
• Dictates directives or commands by someone in
  authority
• Obedience submission to the command of another
• Dilemma something difficult to solve
• Guidelines policies or other indications for
  proper action
• Implication consequence
• Conscience the human capacity to weigh and
  evaluate right and wrong
• Code of Conduct a system of principles or rules

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Who are You
and
Who Do You Want To Be?
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According To...
Happiness
The World
The RCC
Augustine Aquinas
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What does it mean
to live a moral life?
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Principles-Character-Virtue

• Principles
• Character
• Virtue

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Morality and the World
Are there any universal rules or philosophies?

JUDAISM
BUDDHISM
ISLAM
HINDUISM
TAOISM
CHRISTIANITY
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Morality as a Response to God

• Intelligence and Freedom
• Help of the Holy Spirit
• Support of the Church
• Help of the Magisterium
• Help of Jesus

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Help of the Holy Spirit

• What is Grace?
• Gifts of the Holy Spirit
• Wisdom Knowledge
• Understanding Piety
• Right Counsel Fear of the Lord
• Fortitude

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What kinds of decisions
involve morality?
Go out with friends or stay home? Lie to avoid
getting in trouble Eat at McDonalds or Burger
King Have sex before marriage Lie to your
parents Cheat on a test
What factors might make it difficult for
teenagers to make informed, courageous decisions?
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The Character Cycle
Virtues
Good
CHARACTER
Habits
Actions Choices
Bad
Vices
DESTINY
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The Church

The Magisterium

• The Church
• Mother Teacher
• Confers grace of the sacraments
• Christian Community
• The Magisterium
• Popes Bishops
• Infallibility
• What is our Role?
• To Summarize...

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Virtue...What Is It?

• Virtus (Latin word)
• Augustine
• Article What is Virtue?
• Theological Virtues
• Cardinal Virtues

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Cardinal Virtues

• Prudence (wise judgment)
• Justice
• Fortitude (courage)
• Temperance (wholeness)

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Theological Virtues

• FAITH
• HOPE
• LOVE

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...And the Greatest of These is Love
1 Corinthians 1313

• Websters defines love as
• a powerful emotion felt for another person
  manifesting itself in deep affection, devotion or
  sexual desire

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The Four Loves

• C.S. Lewis Four Loves
• Storge
• Philia
• Eros
• Agape

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Storge

• English word
• Relationship
• Example

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Philia

• English Word
• Relationship
• Image
• Example

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Eros

• English Word
• Relationship
• Image
• Example

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Agape

• English Word
• Relationship
• Image
• Na Maste
• Example

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Discussion Questions

• What reasons might people have for not choosing
  to do the right and good thing? To not love?
• What reasons are there for being good or moral,
  for doing what is right?
• What scripture passages are you aware of that
  would help you in the process of moral
  decision-making? Have each person in your group
  select one.

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• The gift of wisdom, by detaching us from the
  world, makes us relish and love only the things
  of heaven.
• The gift of understanding helps us to grasp the
  truths of religion as far as is necessary.
• The gift of counsel springs from supernatural
  prudence, and enables us to see and choose
  correctly what will help most to the glory of God
  and our own salvation.
• By the gift of fortitude we receive courage to
  overcome the obstacles and difficulties that
  arise in the practice of our religious duties.
• The gift of knowledge points out to us the path
  to follow and the dangers to avoid in order to
  reach heaven.
• The gift of piety, by inspiring us with a tender
  and filial confidence in God, makes us joyfully
  embrace all that pertains to His service.
• Lastly, the gift of fear fills us with a
  sovereign respect for God, and makes us dread,
  above all things, to offend Him.

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What is hateful to you
do not do to others
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Do not do to others
what would cause you pain
if done to you
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No one of you is a believer
until you desire for your sister or brother
that which you desire for yourself
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Regard your neighbor's gain
as your own gain
and your neighbor's loss
as your own loss
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Hurt not others in ways
that you yourself
would find hurtful
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Do to others
whatever you would
have done to you
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What is Morality?

• Morality generally refers to the whole area of
  deciding what is right or wrong, good or bad
• Moral that which is good
• Concerned with
• How people ought to behave
• Whos concern is it?
• Everyones not just religious believers

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Overview Questions

1. Why should we study morality?
2. What are some of the moral issues in todays
   world? For the future?
3. Can morality be taught?
4. What is morality?
5. What are some reasons for trying to be moral?
6. What makes a decision right or wrong?
7. Why should I be a moral person?