Midterm Flashcards
(93 cards)
Teleology
- end/goa/meta/telos
- study of the end
Who gave us the 4 principles of double effect?
St. Thomas Aquinas
1st catechism of the U.S.
Baltimore Catechism
Purpose of life quote
“to know, to love, and to serve God in this life so as to be happy with Him forever in the next.”
What is Morality?
What type of term is it?
- doing what is right from the perspective of divinity
- theological term
What is Ethics?
What type of term is it?
- doing what is right from the perspective of humanity
- philosophical term
The first three commandments are about __(1)__, the rest eight are about __(2)__.
- God’s relationship with us/Vertical
- Our relationship with people/Horizontal
three components that make up the Moral Act
object/intention/circumstance
What is Objective Morality?
concept that truth exists regardless of intention or circumstance.
What is Subjective Morality?
concept that truth is contingent upon intention and circumstance
what is Relativism/Moral Relativism ?
what is another word for it?
all truth is subjectively discovered and not objectively revealed
- another word is subjective morality
What is Moralistic?
- group of people associated with it
being moralistic is being a hypocrite
- Pharisees is the group associated with it
What are the 4 Cardinal Virtues?
Explain them.
- prudence/justice/ temperance/fortitude
- PRUDENCE: to put on God
- JUSTICE: scale
- TEMPERANCE: what we need, not want
- FORTITUDE: another word is brave
what are the three theological virtues?
faith/hope/love
Principle of Ends and Means
the ends does not justify the means —> consequentialism
What are the 4 principles of Double Effect?
- the action taken must be good or indifferent in terms of O.I.C.
- the bad effects must not be willed but tolerated
- The good effect must come as directly as the bad
- the good effect must be proportionate to compensate for the bad.
what is the opposite of Teleology(study of the end)
Etiology (study of the origin)
What is eschatology
study of the last 4 things
- death/judgement/heaven/hell
what are the two effects of original sin?
who said this?
- darkens our mind and weakens our will
- St. Augustine
what is concupiscence?
tendency/inclination to sin
what is natural law?
the law of God written in our hearts
What does Veritatis Splendor mean?
- who wrote it?
splendor of truth
- Pope Saint John Paul II (JP2)
image/likeness
image=human
likeness=good
What is actual grace?
you receive actual grace through sacramentals
- ex: cross, rosary, oil, bible