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Moral and Political Philosophy Aesthetics Christology Ecclesiology Epistemology Human Person Logic Metaphysics Moral Theology Philosophy of Nature

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Moral and Political Philosophy Aesthetics Christology Ecclesiology Epistemology Human Person Logic Metaphysics Moral Theology Philosophy of Nature

Moral
1. Pertaining to morality. 2. Pertaining to the will and, hence, not a matter of an absolute necessity. 3. The goodness or rightness of an action.
Moral Object
That which is primarily and per se attained by the nature of the act that a person freely wills to perform. E.g., murder, prayer, or promising. The object of a moral act is the primary and most essen...
Moral Philosophy
(also called Ethics).— The philosophical study of human actions with respect to their goodness or badness, considered from the perspective of the human good knowable by reason alone.
Moral Relativism
The doctrine according to which the goodness or badness of human actions is exclusively contingent upon circumstances of individual agents, situations, cultures, etc. Moral relativism denies that ther...
Morality
1. The quality of a human action with respect to whether it is good or bad (perfective or defective of the human actor). 2. The code of conduct followed by an individual or group.
Motion
The actualization of something in potency insofar as it is in potency. Motion (or kinésis) is the process by which a subject passes from a given state of privation toward a given terminus or end in w...
Motive
(also called Motivation).— The reason for the judgment that one makes. This can include evidence, the testimony of witnesses, social pressure, emotional dispositions, etc.

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