ANTHROPOLOGY
Who am I?
Who are you?
What does it mean to be human?

COSMOS
What exists outside myself?
What is the universe?
How does the universe work?

ORIGINS
Where did I come from?
Where did you come from?
Where did the universe come from?

ENDS
Where am I going?
Where are you going?
Where is the universe going?

SOTERIOLOGY
How do I get to my ultimate end?
How do you get to your ultimate end?
How does the universe get to its ultimate end?

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH TEACHES:
Accurate answers to these questions do exist because reality is real. We human beings each individually believe some accurate and some inaccurate answers to these questions. Our discussion should be a mutual search for accurate answers. We human beings can find accurate answers using reason/intelligence/intellect.

All the accurate answers as a group are called the Objective Moral Order. The Objective Moral order dictates the Natural Law. The Natural Law is how we achieve true happiness in reality. The Revealed Law – in the Bible – breaks open the Natural Law.

Ethics/Norms of Behavior are applications of Natural Law to particular situations. Each person’s Ethics / Norms of Behavior derive from each person’s answers to the above questions. Together, we can get a much more accurate view of the Objective Moral Order and of the Natural Law and of Ethics than any of us can obtain individually.