LESSON 4

Question 1

The primary principle and the heart and soul of the social teaching of the Catholic Church

Answer 1

Dignity

Question 2

True or False: individual human beings are the foundation, the cause and the end of every social institution.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

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.

Answer 3

essentially social

Question 4

The dignity of human person is:

Answer 4

innate, inviolable, inalienable, universal

Question 5

Dignitas by

Answer 5

Early Romans and Cicero

Question 6

Imago Dei

Answer 6

St. Leo the Great

Question 7

Great Chain of Beings by

Answer 7

St. Thomas Aquinas

Question 8

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)

Answer 8

United Nation

Question 9

Pacem in Terris

Answer 9

St. John XXIII & Other Church documents on human rights

Question 10

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

Answer 10

A. Dignitas

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Cicero

Question 12

To St Leo, persons have dignity due to the fact that man is raised up among other beings and made in God’s image

Answer 12

Imago Dei

Question 13

St. Leo the Great and St. Thomas Aquinas also used the term _____ referring to dignity of human person

Answer 13

dignitas

Question 14

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.

Answer 14

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Question 15

St. Thomas aquinas adopted Imago Dei to his concept ____ which means the higher status of a being, the more dignity one possess.

Answer 15

Great Chain of beings

Question 16

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

Answer 16

Article 1 UDHR

Question 17

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

Answer 17

Article 2 (UDHR)

Question 18

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Answer 18

Article 3 (UDHR)

Question 19

was a landmark in the acceptance by the Catholic Christian Church of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Answer 19

St. John’s XXIII’s encyclical Pacem in Terris