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Which is NOT an answer to the dualistic accusation that in its teachings on sexual morality the Catholic Church places too much emphasis on the physical aspects of an act and is thus guilty of "biologism" or "physicalism?"
{ 1 } - The Church's documents do not confuse the physical object of a human act with the moral object.
{ 2 } - Since the body is an essential aspect of the human person, the way that one uses the body can have important moral significance.
{ 3 } - The morality of an act can be determined by the physical act itself, apart from what the agent is expressing by the act.
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Which is NOT an answer to the dualistic accusation that in its teachings on sexual morality the Catholic Church places too much emphasis on the physical aspects of an act and is thus guilty of "biologism" or "physicalism?"
{ 1 } - The Church's documents do not confuse the physical object of a human act with the moral object.
{ 2 } - Since the body is an essential aspect of the human person, the way that one uses the body can have important moral significance.
{ 3 } - The morality of an act can be determined by the physical act itself, apart from what the agent is expressing by the act.
The Church decides on the morality of an act not on the basis of the physical object of the act but on the basis of the moral object, the act as it is a means to achieve the true goals of the human person. See p. 166.
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Which is NOT an answer to the dualistic accusation that in its teachings on sexual morality the Catholic Church places too much emphasis on the physical aspects of an act and is thus guilty of "biologism" or "physicalism?"
{ 1 } - The Church's documents do not confuse the physical object of a human act with the moral object.
{ 2 } - Since the body is an essential aspect of the human person, the way that one uses the body can have important moral significance.
{ 3 } - The morality of an act can be determined by the physical act itself, apart from what the agent is expressing by the act.
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Which is NOT an answer to the dualistic accusation that in its teachings on sexual morality the Catholic Church places too much emphasis on the physical aspects of an act and is thus guilty of "biologism" or "physicalism?"
{ 1 } - The Church's documents do not confuse the physical object of a human act with the moral object.
{ 2 } - Since the body is an essential aspect of the human person, the way that one uses the body can have important moral significance.
{ 3 } - The morality of an act can be determined by the physical act itself, apart from what the agent is expressing by the act.
This would be biologism or physicalism and is hardly a rejection of the accusation. A physical act may even be performed without the consciousness of the agent. For example, one could kill oneself while sleepwalking or in a trance, but the act, while physical, would have no moral significance.
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