1. Person-Centered Morality
Chapter 7

2. What is morality’s main concern?
People
Whose example is morality based on?
Jesus
Centered on neighbors and ourselves

3. What should we first consider in decision making?
Who is involved and how they will be affected
Ask yourself: “How can I be more loving? Considerate?
“Love and do whatever you want.” -Augustine

4. Is loving everyone unrealistic?
God loves us through other people
Different kinds of love
Don’t have to like everyone
Agape: wish them well
Must be loving people who really care what happens to other people

5. You have been given $5000 in your group to split among you
You have been given $5000 in your group to split among you. Read your character aloud and listen as your group reads theirs. Decide how much money each person receives and why you decided this.

6. Must focus on… Those who need our help the most
Those who suffer, who are poor powerless, vulnerable
How do we view people with special needs?
People must be valued not by what they can produce but by the fact that they are capable of reflecting God’s absolute love and goodness

7. Where do the world’s biggest problems come from?
Economy
Who has the most power and wealth and how it should be used
People’s welfare must come before profits
Decent working conditions, fair wages must be a priority in a just economy
Money’s only value is the good it does for people

8. Failing to Love Personal sin: Doing wrong
Inward rejection of God’s command to love
Outward actions to go against God’s Law
Knowingly committing or omitting
Doing wrong
Failing to love people, God as we should

9. Results of Doing Wrong Harms ourselves, harms others
Sin harms people– not God
Effects of sin are seen everywhere
Sin isolates us
When we fail to love we create a barrier between ourselves and others
Wrong because it breaks relationship between us and God or us and others
Laws are intended to help us love– to keep us from being broken

10. Intending Wrong Sin is deliberate Willfully violating and rejecting
Never right to intend wrong
Reasonably believe you are doing good then not wrong
Must intend sin
Responsible to consider appropriate action

11. Social Justice and Sin
Justice: sense of what rightfully belongs to you and others
Equal in value and dignity…not in ability and opportunity
God created us to need each other

12. 4 Types of Justice
Commutative Justice: 1 person rightfully owes another person
Legal Justice: citizens owe their society
Distributive Justice: what society owes its members in proportion to their needs and contributions
Social Justice: broader issues of justice are handled especially those involving large numbers of disadvantaged

13. Particular duty to protect those in greatest need
When we act justly it brings good to everyone
When we act unjustly it negatively effects everyone

14. Make a Christmas list of all the things you want this year.
List as many things as you can think of trying to have at least 10
Go back through and evaluate…
Do I need these things?
How many of these do I already have?
Why do I want these things?
What do they say about me?

15. Forces at work against Justice
Materialism: esteeming wealth and pleasure above values and ideals
“I’ll never have enough.”
“I can never have too much.”
Consumerism: the premise that it is good to consume, regardless of need
Spending time with people becomes secondary
Live more simply focus on what really matters

16. What do people deserve from employers?
Everyone should have equal access to employment
Business should adopt truly cooperative decision making approaches
Workers are partners and can affect change
Treated as human beings not pawns
Do people have an obligation to work?
Why do you think it is important for people to work?
What do you think that people deserve from employers?

17. What happens when workers are treated unfairly?
Diminishes human dignity
Consumers are mistreated

18. What should we do? Solidarity applies
Employers and employees along with consumers must cooperate
Church needs to set example and support

19. Evil Extremes Deliberate acts of cruelty and indifference Terrorism
Torture
Is torture ever justifiable?

20. Beyond Hate Do people still hate today?
Where do you see this hatred? How is it expressed?
Why do people hate?
Where does hate come from?
What can we do to overcome hate?

21. What is the worst moral attitude?
Indifference
Not even bothering
Responsible for caring and being care-full
Loving ourselves means helping others

22. Prejudice Are people in our society prejudice? Are you prejudice?
It is impossible to grow up in a society where prejudices are common without our perceptions being affected
What are different kinds of prejudice?
Racial, ethnic, gender, sexual identity, religious, social or other
Where does prejudice begin?
In our hearts

23. Has prejudice gotten better or worse in our society?

24. Have you ever been a victim of prejudice?
How did it make you feel?
What can we do to end prejudice?

25. Review Christian Morality is centered on Neighbors
Is loving everyone unrealistic?
Who do we need to focus on?
What is the measure of a good society?
Sin
Justice
4 types of justice
Materialism
Consumerism

26. Business Ethics
Socially Responsible Companies
What should we do?
Hate
Prejudice
Torture
Terrorism
Worst moral attitude