Question of Dispensation of the Intrinsically Evil Acts According to St. Thomas Aquinas

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23363398.2022.21" target="_blank" >10.14712/23363398.2022.21</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Question of Dispensation of the Intrinsically Evil Acts According to St. Thomas Aquinas

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

If some action is intrinsically evil, it lacks all moral goodness. This act keeps some physical goodness in the sense that it is real, but it suffers from a real deficient moral disorder. It is morally evil in its essence because its moral privation shapes its objective character. Its disorder defines the act at its core. Such an act is not only affected by evil; it is constituted by evil. The evil shapes the formality and the identity of the action itself. St. Thomas Aquinas argues that these actions cannot be rightly performed under any circumstances and for no end. However, could Almighty God in some specific situations give a dispensation from the negative absolute prohibition? Some biblical cases seem to support this explanation. In many morally difficult situations some kind of mental reservation, or dispensation that would render an otherwise evil act at least morally permissible, might be very convenient. Aquinas explains that God cannot dispense from the precepts of the decalogue because he would deny himself, who is Justice itself. We will see how it was possible to order Abraham to kill his son, and other similar morally disputed cases. Later, we will consider cases of lying and fraud, which frequently appear in the Bible.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Question of Dispensation of the Intrinsically Evil Acts According to St. Thomas Aquinas

Popis výsledku anglicky

If some action is intrinsically evil, it lacks all moral goodness. This act keeps some physical goodness in the sense that it is real, but it suffers from a real deficient moral disorder. It is morally evil in its essence because its moral privation shapes its objective character. Its disorder defines the act at its core. Such an act is not only affected by evil; it is constituted by evil. The evil shapes the formality and the identity of the action itself. St. Thomas Aquinas argues that these actions cannot be rightly performed under any circumstances and for no end. However, could Almighty God in some specific situations give a dispensation from the negative absolute prohibition? Some biblical cases seem to support this explanation. In many morally difficult situations some kind of mental reservation, or dispensation that would render an otherwise evil act at least morally permissible, might be very convenient. Aquinas explains that God cannot dispense from the precepts of the decalogue because he would deny himself, who is Justice itself. We will see how it was possible to order Abraham to kill his son, and other similar morally disputed cases. Later, we will consider cases of lying and fraud, which frequently appear in the Bible.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60303 - Theology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Theologica

ISSN

1804-5588

e-ISSN

2336-3398

Svazek periodika

12

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

127-141

Kód UT WoS článku

000891616400008

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85143285348