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The document discusses the ethical teachings of St. Augustine, emphasizing the importance of moral judgment guided by love for God and neighbor. It outlines Augustine's views on happiness, original sin, and the nature of good and evil, asserting that true happiness is found in God. Additionally, it touches on the sources of Christian ethics and the dual composition of the human person as both body and soul.

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The document discusses the ethical teachings of St. Augustine, emphasizing the importance of moral judgment guided by love for God and neighbor. It outlines Augustine's views on happiness, original sin, and the nature of good and evil, asserting that true happiness is found in God. Additionally, it touches on the sources of Christian ethics and the dual composition of the human person as both body and soul.

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University of San Augustine

1. Ethics came from greek word ethos (character custom/ disposotion) is concerned with
moral judgement and moral decision, involving question about human behavior or
conduct.
2. Augustine uses the bible as a guide to Christian Moral Living
3. According to St. Augustine the love of God and neighbor should guide all moral
decisions.
4. Happiness is the purpose and aim of philosophy
5. God is the Summum bonum and the Source of all goodness.
6. Evil is the act of turning away from God and the absence of goodness
7. Original sin is what we inherit from our first parents adam and eve
8. Augustine came to realize that happiness is found in the possession of God and
presupposed attachment to eternal things.
9. Evil is the absence or lack of goodness.
10. Augustine claims that human beings are made good but not perfect
11. For one to be happy one must know the causes of good and evil
12. For Augustine lying is never permissible
13. Augustine claims that we can never err except through ignorance
14. Augustine was influence by Plato
15. Moral evil comes from human choices
Three fonts of moral theology or source of Christian ethics during Pre-Vatican II

 Sacred scripture, Tradition, and Magisterium


Two principal axis organize by Britzke to guide the deliberations and decisions of the council (VATICAN
II)

 Sacred Claim Axis & Rational Claim Axis


Three basic Christian notions of humanity as a creature

 Created, Has Fallen, and Redeemed by Christ


Human person is composed of both:

 Soul and Body


Possible True or False Questions

1. Augustine describes happiness as consisting in man’s participation in God or “becoming


like “God”.
2. At first, Augustine thought that happiness consists in seeking the Highest Good.
3. Riches and fame are not sources of temporal happiness.
4. The desire for happiness is Universal.
5. You can only be truly happy if you have all that you want.
6. Augustine considered Platonism as closest to the Christian truth.
7. We are created in the image and likeness of God.
8. Our bodies are inherently evil while our souls are the only good.
9. Man is composed of a body and soul.
10. Augustine popularly exclaimed, “You have made us and drawn us to Yourself, and our
heart is restless until it rests in You”.

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