- Oct 2024
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God's commandment is never detached from his love
God does mean for the commandments to be controlling... JPII thinks it is moral to follow the rules and sees the rules as a baseline and then challenges us to find other things to make life more flourishing
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We are facing what can be called a "structure of sin" which opposes human life not yet born.
thinking beyond individual actions-- thinking of systematic view
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which is becoming more and more incapable of distinguishing between good and evil, even when the fundamental right to life is at stake.
morality is based on the upholding of human dignity
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procured abortion has characteristics making it particularly serious and deplorable.
Procure= intended abortion
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As well as the mother, there are often other people too who decide upon the death of the child in the womb. In the first place, the father of the child may be to blame, not only when he di- rectly pressures the woman to have an abortion, but also when he indirectly encourages such a decision on her part by leaving her alone to face the problems of pregnancy
JP II understands that abortion is more tempting given certain situations especially when the women is left alone and the father leaves.
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As I have already emphasized, this commandment is found in the Deca- logue, at the heart of the Covenant which the Lord makes with his chosen people; but it was already contained in the original covenant between God and humanity after the purifying punishment of the Flood, caused by the spread of sin and violence (cf. Gen 9:5-6).
JP II is very set on the idea that rules will lead you to live a holy and fulfilling life
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alienation
welfare states: not saying people do or do not deserve dignity but also at the same time you can't show dignity to one person and not the other
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the possession of know-how, technology and skill.
social mortgage: using these gifts but there is a responsibility to carry with it.
Private property: intellectual abilities, technology and skill
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In this sense, it is right to speak of a struggle against an economic system
trying to say that capitalism should not be way to turn away from socialism. he disagrees with state capitalism but he does agree with the right to voluntarily participate in whichever way they want to in the economic state.
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A striking example of artificial consumption contrary to the health and dignity of the human person
violates the humanistic viewpoint bc seeing someone as a consumers sees them as a means to an end and just trying to sell their products. This defeats human dignity and lessens the inherent human dignity given by God
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- Sep 2024
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Our thoughts and letters desire to turn to you that We may again announce to you and again share with you the exceeding joy which We feel on account of the determinations which have been publicly entered into in that empire with regard to slavery. If, indeed, it seemed to Us a good, happy, and propitious event, that it was provided and insisted upon by law that whoever were still in the condition of slaves ought to be admitted to the status and rights of free men, so also it conforms and increases Our hope of future acts which will be the cause of joy, both in civil and religious matters. Thus the name of the Empire of Brazil will be justly held in honor and praise among the most civilized nations, and the name of its august emperor will likewise be esteemed, whose excellent speech is on record, that he desired nothing more ardently than that every vestige of slavery should be speedily obliterated from his territories.
Never says slavery is wrong, just that the world is better without it. There would be a contradiction if he did say it was wrong, because the Catholic Church was apart and tolerated within the church.
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