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Affected b resentment: pp ses t t w ich

requires discipline

We minimize the chievements f those who

overcomeobst cles Sloth

Devalues that whichdeserves respect

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Harmful

Needfor sexual relief

Enem of love

Theseviews areevidenceoforiginal sin

Without chastit love may be squandered

( 5)

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Chaste means liberationfrom

everything that makes dirty.

Love must be pellucid

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Examines internal andexternal actions

Adultery

Lust

Closely linked with sensuality

Reaction to sexual values

Impingeupon theagent

Encouraged by theagent

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Whendesireachieves end it loses interest

until arousedagain

Oriented towards external values

Usurps the personal value

Non-integration

Squandering raw material ( 5 )

Sentimentality is not solution: can idealizeandevade

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Subjectivism not the sameas subjectivity

Subjectivity involves two persons withinterior lives, two subjects

Subjectivism distorts love: emotions divertthe gazefrom truth Emotional reactions override thevalueof theother

Emotional values becomecriterionof

relationship

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Pleasure becomes standardof judgment

Destroys of theessenceof love

Becomes hedonism

Egoism grows: all about me

Nocommon I

We want the pleasureof theother for our

own sake

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If it is pleasant it must be good

Becomes ahabit of thought

Destroys love

Avoidanceof reflection: not just error in

thinking but distortionofdirectionof

action

Parties must correctlydefine what existsbetween them. ( 65)

Fiction: It doesnt seem sinful.

Sin is denial ofobjectivevalue

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Theother becomes anobject of pleasure

Must distinguish between loveof bodyand

carnal love

Neither sensualitynor carnal desire is a

sin;

Concupiscence (disordereddesire) is the

germ of sin Result oforiginal sin

Sin requires consciousness and

voluntariness

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Must separate psychologyof lovefrom virtue

of love

Love is only psychologicallycomplete when it

possesses andethical value, when it is avirtue

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Chastity is aform of temperance

Desirefor physical goods must be governed by

reason

Ethics ofAristotleandAquinas is ethics ofperfectionism

Chastity is efficiency in managing

concupiscent impulses it keeps the

appetites inequilibrium

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Chastityfrees love (as attraction) from the

utilitarianattitude

Controls not onlydesires andemotions but

also thosecentres deep within thehumanbeing in which theutilitarianattitude is

hatchedand grows. ( 0)

Must be transparent becauseutilitarian

attitudecan becamouflaged

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Ifchastity is understoodas repression,

explosions may results

Chastity is not one long no

Chastity is ayes to thevalueof the

person; it is creative; it brings reactions

intoconsciousness

Onlychaste individuals arecapableoftrue love

It takes a long timeand mucheffort to

becomechaste; weneed to mature

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The body must behumble before mans

greatness

It must be subordinate to love

Must also behumble beforehumanhappiness, truehappiness: union with God

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