Il discernimento morale

Abstract

Specifically moral discernment, the theme of this essay, finds its configuration as the research of the best practicable good, which in the Christian perspective corresponds to the love of Christ(I). Moral discernment is connected to Prudence, which in Christian theology is conceived as a virtue born of the grace of the Holy Spirit and disposed to the practice of the love of Christ in the exercise of tangible works (II), Moral discernment can count on the conscience which, acting as echo of the Spirit, evaluates the concordance or discordance of possible actions in relation to the love of Christ.