Laudato Si Flashcards

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Rapidification

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We are changing faster than organisms can adapt.

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Biodiversity

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The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.

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Paradigm

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A pattern, example, or model

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Hermeneutics

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Method of interpretation

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Culture

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Customs, common sayings, the things we see as “given”, so obviously true that we don’t need to defend them

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Encyclical

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A papal letter sent to all bishops of the Roman Catholic Church

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Positivism/scientism

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A philosophical system that holds that every rationally justifiable assertion can be scientifically verified or is capable of logical or mathematical proof, and that therefore rejects metaphysics and theism.

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Monoculture

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Single culture

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Sister/mother

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Acidification

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A term used to describe significant changes to the chemistry of the ocean. It occurs when carbon dioxide gas (or CO2) is absorbed by the ocean and reacts with seawater to produce acid.Its destroying coral reefs.

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Who is someone Pope Francis refers to as a source of his ideas?

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He quotes the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch.

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What are 5 physical changes that have happened to the Earth?

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1) Pollution is happening.
2) we are creating green house gases, caused by heavy use of fossil fuels.
3) Rise in methane due to rise in sea level.
4) We have a throw away culture. Nature recycles, why don’t we?
5) Microorganisms are killed off, endangering the base of the food chain.
6) There is a loss of biodiversity.

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What does the Pope want to emphasize and what does he want to reject?

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Emphasize: Human beings, endowed with intelligence, must
respect the laws of nature and the delicate equilibria existing between the creatures of this world.
Reject: Human life is grounded in three fundamental and closely intertwined relationships: with God, with our neighbour and with the earth itself. According to the Bible, these three vital relationships have
been broken, both outwardly and within us. This rupture is sin.

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What is the common understanding of technological inventions which increase our power over the planet?—in particular what do people inevitably see as progress?

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We believe that any increase in our power is progress.

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What is the common belief about how technological innovation will affect environmental challenges?

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We look at technology through an “undifferential paradigm.” We need to see that technological products are not neutral.

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What is Guardini’s remark about human use of power in today’s world? #107 What must we understand and acknowledge about technological products?

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We assume that growth and power are limitless. We need to see that technological products are not neutral.

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How does technological innovation interact with the free market economy? What is the common (mis-)understanding about how environmental problems, especially food supply, will be solved through operation of the economy?

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The economy accepts every advance in technology with a view to profit, without concern for its possible negative impact upon human beings. Some maintain that current economics and technology will solve all environmental problems, and argue that global hunger and poverty will be resolved simply by market growth.

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What is his statement in Art. 56 about the “deified market”; who/what is victimized by the market? 3 pts.

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Whatever is week and vulnerable such as the poor, cannot protect itself against a “defied market.”

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What is “practical relativism?” Then give three examples of how practical relativism can play out in the economy; that is, describe the horrifying, immoral behaviors that cannot be stopped by leaving the market to work by itself.

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Practical relativism is a relativism that that judges everything as relative to my wants and needs. The practical relativism of our age is what allows us to use other people to our advantage, to let the impersonal forces of the market call the shots. Personal relativism allows us to blood diamonds, sex trafficking, degrading the environment to what I want etc.

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Explaintheprincipleofthecommongood.Whatisthefundamentalrespectwhichthenotionofthecommongoodisbuiltupon?Whatishisrecommendedviewofthefutureandhowdoesit
contrastwithcommonpoliticalwaysofseeingthings?

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Principle of common good is the idea of the dignity of human person.the rights of everyone to have the means of becoming a whole/healthy person. The idea of common good includes consideration of what’s good for future generations.

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InArticle47,howdoesFranciscontrastIgnatianthinkingwith
internet ­driventhinking?

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Francis thinks self examination, real dialogue, and the give-and-take of human relationships helps us to gain wisdom and health.