Contents
Foreword
1. Exceptionless moral norms: few but strategic
2. Witnessed to by faith
3. Part of the theology of human fulfillment
4. Rejected when human replaces divine providence
5. No narrowing of horizons
6. Choice, reflexivity, and proportionalism
7. Protecting changeless aspects of human fulfillment
8. Negative norms but positive and revelatory
9. Rejection: some motivations and implications
1. Intrinsece mala: acts always wrong, but not
by definition
2. Specified neither evaluatively nor physically / behaviorally
3. Opposed to reason and integral human fulfillment
4. Worse than suffering wrong
5. Proportionalist justifications: incoherent with rationally
motivated free choice
6. The central case: intentional harm, always
unreasonable
7. Deadly defense and death penalty: not necessarily
proportionalist
1. Free choice: a morally decisive reality
2. Evil: not to be chosen that good may come
3. Actions: morally specified by their objects
(intentions)
4. Intending human harm: never acceptable for God
or man
5. Counterexamples
6. Responsibility for side effects: other principles
and norms
1. Contraception and the general denial of absolutes
2. Historical and ecclesiological skirmishes
3. The main action: in philosophical theology
4. Prudence misconceived: the absolutes aesthetically dissolved
5. A summary conclusion
Index