LESSON 4 Flashcards
The primary principle and the heart and soul of the social teaching of the Catholic Church
Dignity
True or False: individual human beings are the foundation, the cause and the end of every social institution.
True
Human life is seen to be _____ _______ because human beings have been created in the image of God who is Trinity and who combines both unity and relationship in self.
essentially social
The dignity of human person is:
innate, inviolable, inalienable, universal
Dignitas by
Early Romans and Cicero
Imago Dei
St. Leo the Great
Great Chain of Beings by
St. Thomas Aquinas
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
United Nation
Pacem in Terris
St. John XXIII & Other Church documents on human rights
Early Romans used the term ______ referring to people appointed to public offices and with higher status in the society.
a. Dignitas
b. UDHR
c. Pacem in Terris
A. Dignitas
Who redefined dignitas referring to all humans by making distinction against animals where the former are governed by reason while the latter by bodily pleasures and instinct. To him, dignity encompasses not only of those who were persons of authority and wealth but includes all humanity
Cicero
To St Leo, persons have dignity due to the fact that man is raised up among other beings and made in God’s image
Imago Dei
St. Leo the Great and St. Thomas Aquinas also used the term _____ referring to dignity of human person
dignitas
It recognizes the dignity of every person in Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). The Preamble and first three articles of the declaration serve as its foundation of other rights.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
St. Thomas aquinas adopted Imago Dei to his concept ____ which means the higher status of a being, the more dignity one possess.
Great Chain of beings