Kanonické souvislosti k diskusi o cílech manželství

The article presents a canonical discussion on the ends of marriage - the procreation and education of children, and the good of the spouses - as it developed in connection with the two codes of canonic law. Unlike the 1917 code that recognized the primary and the secondary ends of marriage, the 1983 code avoided setting forth a hierarchy of ends of marriage in accord with 'Gaudium et spes' of Vatican Council II, and recognized these ends as substantial to Christian understanding of marriage.