{"id":343,"date":"2008-05-28T21:58:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T02:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=343"},"modified":"2008-05-28T21:58:59","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T02:58:59","slug":"an-insight-not-the-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"An Insight (Not the Car)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the discussions following my ethics post on <a href=\"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=342\" target=\"_blank\">SCO<\/a>, I finally realized (comment #17):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You are not arguing for traditional conservative morality, you are arguing for Kantian (moral absolute) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theosis\" rel=\"nofollow\">deontology<\/a>. I don\u2019t think Christian meta-ethics are either deontological or teleogical \u2026 or absolutist. I think, if pressed, I\u2019d define Christian ethics is <em>pneumatological<\/em> \u2026 but that just occurred to me so I\u2019m going to have to think <em>that<\/em> through in my next essay. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Modern ethics, wiki tells us, is divided today into deontological and teleological camps, or roughly speaking rule based ethics vs consequence based ethics with some variations. Christian ethics is neither. But then, what is it?<\/p>\n<p>What does my claim that Christian ethics is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pneumatology\" target=\"_blank\">pneumatological<\/a> mean. That means, our ethical choices should be inspired by the Spirit (of God). St. Siluan (of <em>St. Siluan the Athonite<\/em>) suggests that this is, in part, accomplished by striving take\u00a0 first choice\u00a0 that springs unbidden to our mind as he believes that is, more often that not, is not from yourself but from the Spirit. Likely as well, one&#8217;s prayer life, ascetic struggle, and liturgical\/sacramental participation play into that ability of the Spirit to influence you in this way. As well, Scripture and the traditions passed from the Fathers can be a guide for us &#8230; when we lack personal inspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the discussions following my ethics post on SCO, I finally realized (comment #17): You are not arguing for traditional conservative morality, you are arguing for Kantian (moral absolute) deontology. I don\u2019t think Christian meta-ethics are either deontological or teleogical \u2026 or absolutist. I think, if pressed, I\u2019d define Christian ethics is pneumatological \u2026 but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,55,58,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-ethics-morality","category-marko","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}