期刊名称：Alpha Omega : rivista di filosofia e teologia dell'Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum
出版年度：2003
卷号：VI
期号：2
出版社：Athenaeum Pontificium Regina Apostolorum
摘要：This article presents Grisez’s thought about contraception. The first section shows briefly how this author perceives contraceptive acts as choosing to prevent the beginning of a new life. Therefore, these acts are always against life («a contralife act»). The second section of this work analyses Grisez’s vocabulary about the human act: choice, «the proposal adopted by choice» (finis operis, object of the act), intention (‘immediate’ and ‘ulterior’), and it’s application to the contraceptive act. The third section consists in a valuation of Grisez’s position. His analysis of the human act is thomistic and sound, but the object or meaning of the contraceptive act is not to prevent the beginning of a new possible life, but to make infertile the sexual relations. The contraceptive act is directed against the conjugal acts, not against the nonexistent child. Moreover, the intention about avoiding the beginning of a new life is not illicit in itself. It can be licit, as in the cases of periodic abstinence due to serious reasons of responsible paternity and in the situations of sexual aggression.
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