Then again—there are Catholic moralists, including, I think, some Catholics I know personally, who firmly believe that (for example) stealing is wrong because stealing is wrong. Not for any other reason.
This sounds like deontological ethics. It’s not by any means unique to Catholicism; it’s just the general idea that being good involves following a (presumably carefully chosen) list of rules.
Not all Catholics are deontologists; not all deontologists are Catholic. And, I may be misreading here, but I think your worry is more about deontology than Catholicism; that is, it’s more about people who follow a list of rules instead of trying consequentialism or virtue ethics or something else along those lines. Is this accurate?
This sounds like deontological ethics. It’s not by any means unique to Catholicism; it’s just the general idea that being good involves following a (presumably carefully chosen) list of rules.
Not all Catholics are deontologists; not all deontologists are Catholic. And, I may be misreading here, but I think your worry is more about deontology than Catholicism; that is, it’s more about people who follow a list of rules instead of trying consequentialism or virtue ethics or something else along those lines. Is this accurate?