On Veritatis Splendor by Fr. Joseph Koterski: 11. Chapter Two Section 3 - Fundamental Choice and Specific Kinds of Behavior

Recorded in 2013. Chapter 3, Section 2. This lecture discusses a number of additional topics related to the conscience and to the use of human freedom.  Catholic moral theology has a long tradition of casuistry (an approach to morality that proceeds by considering the problems that arise in cases of various types).  Among these types of situation are the questions about the obligations to obey a dubious conscience and an erroneous conscience.  Veritatis splendor critiques the tendency in contemporary moral theology to suggest that a fundamental option is what determines the moral evaluation of a deliberate human action rather than the conformity of a particular action to the moral law.  This lecture also examines the distinction the encyclical makes between an appropriate and an inappropriate sense of the term “fundamental option.”
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