The key here is not just that they have been exposed to a Catholic vision of marriage as such, but that they will instinctively accept
an objective order of truth, goodness and fulfilment across the whole of life.
Not exact matches
More generally, it stands within the «realist» tradition in affirming the
objective reality
of the
orders of truth and other kinds
of excellence, as against nominalists and subjectivists who believe that knowledge is essentially a human construct and values are nothing but human preferences.
However, the
truth apprehended by faith is not that
of a static
objective order to which the mind
of man responds.
We need such an account in
order to prevent the breakdown
of realism — doctrines are
truth claims about
objective realities — from leaving us unsure that the biblical narrative provides the datum
of faith.
They're free - floating labels — and very easily abused — unless they're rooted in a permanent
order of objective moral
truth.