The Practice and Theory of Supernatural Virtues in Ethical Counseling

Philosophy and Culture 38 (1):19-37 (2011)
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Ethical guidance counseling as a branch of philosophy, emphasizing the ethical issues, ethical or practical application as its main axis, and its theoretical basis but with reference to ethics as the core, but not limited to ethics, philosophy and other areas philosophy and techniques are also included. Ethical guidance, roughly speaking, is a kind of ethical vision of counseling or counseling programs, counseling staff attention to the ethical life of the case rate, which choose the direction of the talks, purpose, meaning and value. Ethics counseling in addition to the theoretical basis of ethics, the ethics of counseling will be the focus of ethical concern because of its reference to the relevant ethics counseling philosophy and methodology to develop practical skills that contribute to the ethical aspects of clinical practice counseling in the promotion . The so-called "supernatural" means above or beyond the human nature, human nature intended. Catholic Ethics in the "supernatural", specifically refers to people as "children of God" of this feature; This paper attempts to explain three ways with the "supernatural" about the content of what is in the interpretation of the supernatural virtues, this article pointed out that ultra- of virtue ethics counseling to moral theology and spirituality as a theoretical basis. Transcendent virtues belong to the Christian moral theology areas. Concerned about the ethics of universal moral theology, spirituality ascetics of individual attention and specificity. However, the core spirit of universal spiritual stored in the "God is love," the value, so in terms of this universality, spirituality is also attached in this part of moral theology. Even spirituality can be regarded as ethical practice of theology, moral theology has spirituality to do when added to the concrete implementation in the individual Christian's daily life, to meet the special needs of individual Christians. Finally, in the counselor's practice, the article discusses how to read from the transcendent virtue ethics counseling practice. This paper presents four principles: Man from God's perspective; transcendent ethical awareness and recognition; repair the relationship between God and spiritual renewal; bliss of desire. As a branch of philosophical counseling, ethical counseling stresses the ethical issue and ethical perspective as the axis of its practice and application. Moreover, the theoretical foundation it refers to is about, but not limited by, ethics, as the philosophical thinking and skills of other categories are included as well. Ethical counseling, to put it roughly, is a counseling activity bestowed with the ethical vision, where the counselors pay great attention to the range of the clients' lives and choose the directions, goals, meanings and values ​​of the interviews accordingly. While founded theoretically on ethics, in accordance to the ethical focuses its concerned with, ethical counseling also refers to the related philosophical methodology and develops the practical skills of clinical ethical counseling, which is helpful to the improvement of clinical ethical counseling in clinical practice. The meaning of "the supernatural" is something beyond or surpassing human nature. In Catholic ethics, "the supernatural" means specifically the characteristic of God's children. In this article, we try to explicate the implications of "the supernatural" from three approaches. After explicating what supernatural virtues are, it's pointed out here the ethical counseling of supernatural virtues is theoretically founded on both ethical theology and spirituality. Supernatural virtues fall tinder the category of Christian ethical theology. Ethical theology cares about the generality of ethics, while spirituality pays attention to the individuality and particularity of the spiritual cultivator. However, since the essence of spirituality exists generally in the value of "God as Love," in the respect of this generality, spirituality also falls under the category of ethical theology. Moreover, spirituality can be considered the practice of ethical theology, while ethical theology should be complemented by spirituality in order to be realized in the everyday lives of individual Christians and satisfy the particular needs of individual Christians. Finally, regarding the practice of counseling, we explore in this paper how to see the practice of clinical ethical counseling from the perspective of supernatural virtues. Here four principles are proposed: to see people from God's eyes; the perception and recognition of supernatural ethics; the restoration of the God-Man relationship and the spiritual renewal; and the desire for the supreme good

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