Abelard's Ethics For Today

[@LightestNixl]

Im studying for my philosophy exams and it was a tough task to find videos explaining what he stood for. This helped out! Thanks!

[@MrResearcher122]

New subscriber. I liked,Father,your brief discourse on 'mysticism'. I was reading the famous Quaker, Robert Barclay, and arrived here. I have read the love story of Abelard and Heloise.

[@bibifrezz5220]

Thanks ! From France In jesus by Mary

[@brodiejavelin2447]

How do you think Abelard would respond to a scenario in which both the wealthy investors made a vow to begin the construction, one completed but one never began? How would he define the sincerity of an intention?

[@Sazad101]

Is he talking about abeleard pierre??

[@cfalcon8342]

no peter

[@8bitorgy]

The child smothered by the mother case isn't that surprising. If the intention of the society is to be just and moral, then of course the mother should be punished.

[@logon235]

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." I think Peter Abelard in a roundabout way is again putting the Church as the authority of morality. His examples pins morality as to be within intentions. This is unknowable except to the person taking action. This is of little practical use as it can only be guessed at. He does surrender to civil authority and thankfully refers to it as justice. With 'desire', his example is a bit vague as in the case of the shackled monk. It appears that the monk is not being evil when breaking his vow because of the desire. He could not control his desire but he had no 'intention' to break his vow. What of the rapists or pedophiles who are also trapped by this uncontrollable desire? Are then now morally right? The exhausted mother smothering the child, had no intention but could also be negligent. A society will not necessarily consider that morally evil and ask for punishment. At the end, Abelard goes for the "Will of God" through Church teachings and scriptures which turns this whole treatise another claim that morality is only possible with Christianity.