THE NORM OF
MORALITY
By: Aireca Marie Rasonable BSED MATH 4B
01
Lectura Analysis
WHAT IS NORM?
IN MORALITY, WHAT
IS NORM?
Introducción
•
In the Article on Law we earned that
there is an eternal plan for the ordering
or government of all acts and
movements in the universe, and that
this plan directs things towards their
last end.
01
Lectura Analysis
TWO KINDS OF NORM
OF MORALITY
ETERNAL LAW
CONSCIENCE
What is Eternal Law?
• Eternal Law is the
Divine Wisdom of
God which
oversees the
common good and
governs
everything.
What is Conscience?
• Conscience is an
inner feeling or
voice viewed as
acting as a guide
to the rightness or
wrongness of
one’s behavior.
02
Lectura Analysis
WHAT IS THE
RELATIONSHIP OF
THIS TWO NORMS OF
MORALITY?
SUMMARY:
• Summing the matter up, we say that the
Norm of Morality, is remotely and
ultimately (but primarily), the Eternal
Law.
• While proximately (but secondarily) it is
conscience.
• In reality, then there are not two norms
but only one.