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Will to power

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Truth and freedom are based on ones ability to impose their will
Ultimately hinders freedom

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Nietzsche

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Will to power

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Christ is tempted

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4:1-11

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Prologue of johns gospel

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Logos (word) becomes flesh, aka incarnation

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Hidden years

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12-30
Luke temple
Public ministry

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Christ developed through

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Grace: relationship with father (abba)
Nature: family , own experience , education

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Jesus is in Hypostatic union

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Fully god, fully human

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Matthew 5-7

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Sermon on the mount / moral discourses

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Moral discourses

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Turn the other cheek (revenge)
Our father: describes perfect prayer and personal god
Beatitudes: describe internal transformation with being rather than doing

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Matthew 5:48

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Perfection

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The commandments

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Meant to safeguard the good of a person and the image of god by protecting his goods

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Virtues

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Heathy good habits that help us do good and empower us to be who god wants us to be

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Theological

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Faith
Hope
Love

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Cardinal

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Temperance
Prudence
Fortitude
Justice

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Theological virtues

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Infused by god into our souls, enable us to live in relationship with blessed trinity

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Christian notion

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Good
Happy
Saved us
Plan

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Refutations are….

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Freud said: product of our need to find our origins and cope with death
(Religion was made to restrain man from violent impulses)
Evil (deprivation and distortion in Christian notion)
Pain ( tragedy on vulnerable)

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Nominalism

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Developed by William Okcham for sake of protecting gods divinity which denies existence of universal essences

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Nominalism leads to

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Moral relativism: reduces truth to a limit but as same value

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Science and reason

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Angel out faith and anything metaphysical

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Descartes

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Truth has to be clear and distinct

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Morality becomes

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Deontological: what should I do (rule based)

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Who supported deontological and what code embodies it

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Kant and Ten Commandments

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Ontological ethics

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Who should I be

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What takes primary place in cardinal virtues

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Prudence

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Intellectual virtue

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Transcends caution

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Prudence is what and geared towards

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Saying the correct thing effectively and geared towards the good

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Jesus says what two things in NT

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Man shall leave his mother and father and cling to his wife and the two shall be one flesh
Adultery of mind

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St. Paul in Corinth

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Temple of Aphrodite: fertility cults
Greco roman rituals: orgies
Condemned homosexual acts

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At Augustine

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Rigid view on sexuality which stemmed from promiscuous lifestyle prior to conversion

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Aquinas

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Theology that focused on end and purpose

Sexuality is for procreation

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John Paul the second

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Influenced by philosophy of personalism: every person is a gift
Book: love and responsibility he critiques selfish nature of sex
Man should wait for partner to orgasm so that both experience equal pleasure

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What conscience is not

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Jiminy cricket, gut instinct, majority opinion , feeling

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A sound conscience

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Zeros in on virtues and vices

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Virtue

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A good habit that empowers us to do good with ease

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Vice

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Bad habit that inclines us to do evil instead of good

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You must what with your conscience

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Form and keep informing

Listen to it

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Fortitude

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The moral virtue that ensures firmness in difficulties and constancy in the pursuit of good

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Martyr

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Witness ready to suffer and even die for truth and virtue

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Capital sins

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Moral vices that give rise to many other failures to love

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Sin is

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Offense against reason truth and right conscience
A failure in genuine love for god and neighbor cause by perverse attachment to certain goods
Utterance deed or desire contrary to eternal law

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Hattah

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Missing mark

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Comsequences of sin

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Alienates us from
God
Ourself
Others

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New Testament description of sin

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Darkness
Falsehood
Injustices

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Concupiscense

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Inclination toward evil caused by original sin

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Mortal sin

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Total rejection and alienation from god

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Three conditions for mortal sin

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Grave matter
Full knowledge
Complete consent

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Reconciliation

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Sacrament of healing through which Christ extends his forgiveness

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Venial sin

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Personal sin that weakens but does not kill our relationship with god

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Repentance

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Change of mind or change of heart

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Contrition

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Heartfelt sorrow and aversion for sin committed along with the intention to sin no more

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Freedom

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Power rooted in reason and will to perform deliberate actions on ones own conscience

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Determinism

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Philosophy that holds that every event action and decision results from something independent of human will

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External freedom

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Freedom from factors outside of ourselves that threaten to destroy our power to exercise choice

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Internal freedom

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Freedom from interior factors that limit choice

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Limits of freedom

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Human freedom is not absolute but limited

True freedom is not license

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Major impediments

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Ignorance: not knowing what we should or should not do
Duress: freedom is impeded when so,some tries to force is to do something
Fear: panic in the face of danger

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Emotions are morally .. However

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Neutral; to the degree that they engage our reason and will we can find moral good or evil in them

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Jesus is

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Fundamental norm of Christian morality

Standard model on whom we should pattern our lives

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Norms

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Guidelines or laws hat can help regulate human freedom

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Source of norms

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Scripture, tradition , human reason

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According to genesis

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Sexual was intended to be very good

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Sexuality involves

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Emotional and spiritual make up

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Sixth and ninth commandments

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Warn against disrespectful and harmful actions involving sex

Safeguard gods intentions for sex

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God intended sexual intercourse

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To be shared exclusively between a man and woman in the union of marriage

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Moral means of birth regulation must be in harmony with

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Two ends of marriage: openness to life and sharing of love

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Effective natural ways of regulating birth

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Periodic abstinence and natural family planning

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Prudence involves

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Saying things effectively

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Eschatology

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Study of end times heaven hell purgatory realities

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Evil=

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Deprivation and distortion of the good

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Creation is

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Good
Humanity is good
God is behind all that is good

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Nihilism

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Philosophy that denies here is any meaning in existence or religious belief. Only thing that matters is annhialation and nothingness

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Outstanding human attributes

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Capacity to love
Capacity to grow
Free will
Built to think

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God made us

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Social beings

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It is part of our nature to live in

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Various societies: groups that are bound by a principle of unity that goes beyond each individual in the community (families, neighborhoods, schools)

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Catholic theology on creation

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Magnificent creatures and summit of gods creative activity

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Humans are…because god made us in……enabling us to

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Unique , divine image , sharing in gods own life

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Beatitudes

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Being rather than doing

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Norms

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Guidelines or laws that help regulate freedom

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Paschal mystery

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Life death resurrection of Jesus