Autor: McCarthy, Michael

Buch: Workshop Rome 2001

Titel: Theological Reflection and Christian Renewal

Stichwort: ethics - constitutive, methodical; klassische - existentiale Ethik

Kurzinhalt: desire to know als konstitutives Prinzip d. Ethik, Entweder: satisfy the deepest demands of our spiritual nature, Oder: alienated; Werturteil intentionaler Analyse (nicht aufgrund metaphys. Spekualtion)

Textausschnitt: Constitutive
() he foundational principles of ethics are constitutive of human subjectivity. We are constituted as human knowers and doers by the unrestricted desires that orient us in a fundamental way towards the universe of being and value.
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we faithfully comply with the operative exigences within our own consciousness, we satisfy the deepest demands of our spiritual nature; we fulfill the requirements of sustained human development; we live at peace with God, our neighbors and the order of creation. By contrast, when bias and sin prevent the normative unfolding of our free subjectivity, or when we ignore or transgress the transcendental precepts, we become alienated from ourselves and ensnared in divisive conflict with God, our fellows and the created order ...
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It is important to recognize that an authentic ethics is not an externally imposed set of obligations and imperatives created to constrain our native human desires and aspirations. Rather, an existential ethics articulates the innermost aspirations and norms of the human spirit.
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The focus of existential ethics is not on terminal values, on the objects or ends at which human beings consciously aim, on the diversity of goods they deliberately seek and pursue. Existential ethics continues the reflexive turn to the intentional subject, to human inferiority. ...
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Classical ethics was based on carefully delineating the internal and external goods required for the perfection of human nature. Existential ethics, by contrast, concentrates on the normative unfolding of intentional subjectivity, on the sublation of objective knowing by authentic living, and on the further sublation of responsible agency through the charisms of the Holy Spirit.
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Lonergan's heuristically oriented ethics in no way excludes terminal values or denies the importance of the moral and intellectual virtues, but it grounds its evaluative judgments and decisions not in a metaphysics of the rational soul but in a normative intentional analysis of the incarnate, polymorphic developing subject.