An obligation is an action one owes one or more other people. When one fulfills an obligation one does something good but not all good actions are obligations. Some actions are supererogatory, they go above and beyond obligation. I am obliged to pay taxes but I am not obliged to donate money to charity. Both actions are good but the latter is a supererogatory action. The moral status of an action depends on whether the action is an obligation. Failure to perform an obligatory action is wrong. The value of an action does not so depend. An action can be good even if it is not obligatory. It is good…
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Money Money Money
Money, as traditionally understood, is a unit of payment for goods and services recognized and established by a government within a country. It is a medium of exchange, cutting out the need for exchange of physical goods; it is a standard by which any good or service is measured in terms of value, a method for the preservation of value through for example, savings, and a means of settling a debt. If that’s what money is, then how do we, as Christians, make sense of it? The following is almost entirely drawn from Leland Ryken’s book, Worldly Saints: For a start, is money good or bad or morally neutral? Historically, the Roman Catholic Church…