Proportionalism
Proportionalism - Bernard Hoose
- Background
- Overview
- Distictions: pre-moral evil; ontic evil; immoral; right act; good act
- As a hybrid of Natural Moral Law
- Based on agape
- Application: capital punishment; immigration
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- Created on: 20-01-19 13:44
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- Proportionalism
- Background
- 1960s
- Hoose
- Arose from an increasing concern among some theologians
- Catholic ethic was too rigid
- McCormick
- "...disowned an excessively casuistic approach to the moral life."
- McCormick
- Catholic ethic was too rigid
- McCormick
- "...disowned an excessively casuistic approach to the moral life."
- Condemned by the Catholic Church
- Somewhat visible in Aquinas' work
- Based on agape
- Overview
- Some moral rules you should never go against; unless there is a proportionate reason to
- Stabbing someone is wrong because it breaks the primary precept of preserving life but if it is in self defence it is okay
- Hoose
- "It is never right to go against a principle unless there is a proportionate which would justify it."
- Some moral rules you should never go against; unless there is a proportionate reason to
- Stabbing someone is wrong because it breaks the primary precept of preserving life but if it is in self defence it is okay
- Some moral rules you should never go against; unless there is a proportionate reason to
- "It is never right to go against a principle unless there is a proportionate which would justify it."
- Proportionate Reason
- In order to decide whether an act is right or wrong to go against the theological moral rule; the intention, the situation and the consequence of the moral agent has to be considered
- Some moral rules you should never go against; unless there is a proportionate reason to
- Distinctions
- Pre-moral evil
- An act that is bad in itself but is for the greater good
- A surgeon cutting someone open to save their life
- An act that is bad in itself but is for the greater good
- Ontic evil
- The belief that there is a lack of order in the world due to the fall of Adam and Eve
- Shooting a gunman, who is trying to break into a school to kill students
- The belief that there is a lack of order in the world due to the fall of Adam and Eve
- Immoral act
- Breaking a moral rule without any reason to
- Murdering a child walking down the street
- Breaking a moral rule without any reason to
- Right act
- Not a good act but is the lesser of two evils
- Killing Hitler in order to save millions of Jews
- Not a good act but is the lesser of two evils
- Pre-moral evil
- Hybrid of NML
- Teleological
- Right and wrong should be judged by the end outcome
- Deontologiical
- The action should be only morally judged
- Teleological
- Application
- Capital Punishment
- Situation: woman murdered 30 people out of pleasure
- Morality: capital punishment is bad
- Value: stops her murdering more people
- Disvalue: murdering the murderer
- Conclusion: it is okay to use capital punishment because it is for the greater good
- Disvalue: murdering the murderer
- Value: stops her murdering more people
- Morality: capital punishment is bad
- Situation: woman murdered 30 people out of pleasure
- Immigration
- Situation: a poor country has to decide whether to help hundreds of immigrants
- Morality: helping others is a good act
- Value: immigrants may bring war to the poor country putting the citizens in danger
- Disvalue: the immigrants need help - they are dying
- Conclusion: the country helped the immigrants
- Disvalue: the immigrants need help - they are dying
- Value: immigrants may bring war to the poor country putting the citizens in danger
- Morality: helping others is a good act
- Situation: a poor country has to decide whether to help hundreds of immigrants
- Capital Punishment
- Background
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