Laudato Si

Question 1

Rapidification

Answer 1

We are changing faster than organisms can adapt.

Question 2

Biodiversity

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Paradigm

Answer 3

A pattern, example, or model

Question 4

Hermeneutics

Answer 4

Method of interpretation

Question 5

Culture

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Encyclical

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Positivism/scientism

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

Monoculture

Answer 8

Single culture

Question 9

Sister/mother

Answer 9

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Question 10

Acidification

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

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

Answer 11

He quotes the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch.

Question 12

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

Answer 12

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.

Question 13

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

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

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

Answer 14

We believe that any increase in our power is progress.

Question 15

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

Answer 15

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

Question 16

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

Answer 16

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

Question 17

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?

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

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

Answer 18

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

Question 19

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.

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

Explaintheprincipleofthecommongood.Whatisthefundamentalrespectwhichthenotionofthecommongoodisbuiltupon?Whatishisrecommendedviewofthefutureandhowdoesit
contrastwithcommonpoliticalwaysofseeingthings?

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

InArticle47,howdoesFranciscontrastIgnatianthinkingwith
internet ­driventhinking?

Answer 21

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