Focused Link: It Takes a Family: Moral Truth and the End of Man
An excerpt on Senator Rick Santorum's chapter "Moral Truth and the End of Man". The full article is in this link:
http://catholiceducation.org/articles/civilization/cc0198.html
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Truth and goodness go together. This sounds abstract, and in some ways it is; but at the same time, it’s very practical too. If you think about it, to really learn anything, you have to accept and be governed by certain values and certain moral truths. Those include things like the value of hard work (the learning process), of doing your own work when called to demonstrate your knowledge (not cheating on tests), and of respecting others and not disrupting the learning process (good behavior during class), to name a few.
Even the most “value-fearing” village elder can’t really avoid facing the question of moral truth and its place in the learning process. In fact, liberals are just as eager as I am to teach morality to schoolchildren. They are eager to teach them lessons about racial and sexual equality, for example. I agree with them; such moral lessons about equality of opportunity and the intrinsic dignity of every human person before God and the law should be taught. But equality is not a “fact” in any narrow scientific sense — in fact, the more scientifically we look at human beings, the more dissimilar and unequal they are. No, equality is not a “fact,” but rather a moral judgment, a moral commitment — one that I strongly support our schools teaching. Similarly, we should teach our children to make other kinds of proper moral judgments, such as the importance of tolerance, properly understood, of fairness, of proper respect for people, and of proper respect for the natural world.
http://catholiceducation.org/articles/civilization/cc0198.html
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Truth and goodness go together. This sounds abstract, and in some ways it is; but at the same time, it’s very practical too. If you think about it, to really learn anything, you have to accept and be governed by certain values and certain moral truths. Those include things like the value of hard work (the learning process), of doing your own work when called to demonstrate your knowledge (not cheating on tests), and of respecting others and not disrupting the learning process (good behavior during class), to name a few.
Even the most “value-fearing” village elder can’t really avoid facing the question of moral truth and its place in the learning process. In fact, liberals are just as eager as I am to teach morality to schoolchildren. They are eager to teach them lessons about racial and sexual equality, for example. I agree with them; such moral lessons about equality of opportunity and the intrinsic dignity of every human person before God and the law should be taught. But equality is not a “fact” in any narrow scientific sense — in fact, the more scientifically we look at human beings, the more dissimilar and unequal they are. No, equality is not a “fact,” but rather a moral judgment, a moral commitment — one that I strongly support our schools teaching. Similarly, we should teach our children to make other kinds of proper moral judgments, such as the importance of tolerance, properly understood, of fairness, of proper respect for people, and of proper respect for the natural world.
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