Test 5

Question 1

Man’s Power over Nature

Answer 1

EX: Airplane, Wireless, and Contraceptive

Sometimes it is power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Question 2

The Tao

Answer 2

The kind of man the teachers wished to produce and the motives for producing him.
A norm to which the teachers themselves were subject and from which they claimed no liberty to depart.
Product of education.

Question 3

Conditioners

Answer 3

Motivators/the creators of motives.

Produce Conscious

Question 4

De-homunculize

Answer 4

(demonize) Science performs this, and it must do so if it is to prevent the abolition of the human species.

Question 5

Skinner’s Totalitarian Society

Answer 5

Behavioral Scientist (Harvard) who stated that we submit ourselves completely to the ‘technology of behavior’ and so change ourselves and our society from the ground up.

Question 6

Classical approach to ethics

Answer 6

All are apologetic: stakes a claim and defends it

All are noetic: shared knowledge rather than shared ignorance

Question 7

Pluralist approach to ethics

Answer 7

All are anapologetic: refuses to stake out a position.
All are anoetic: Arguments appeal to shared ignorance
“God does not belong in Political Theory”

Question 8

Original Sin

Answer 8

Three greatest troubles of public life come from the Fall

1. We do wrong
2. Intellectual: we not only misbehave but misthink, do wrong and call it right.
3. Strategic

Question 9

Progressivism

Answer 9

Thinks that If only the citizens would stand aside, government would fix everything.

Question 10

Libertarianism

Answer 10

Thinks that if only the government would stand aside, the market would fix everything.

Question 11

Stages of Sin

Answer 11

Temptation, Toleration, Approval

Question 12

Conscience

Answer 12

Weakened by Neglect
Used as a restrain/resistance.
Comes from within and without (culture)
Active force that both holds us back and drives us on.

Question 13

Antigone

Answer 13

Forbidden by the king to bury her dead brother

Uses divine law to attain what she wants

Question 14

Verbal Revelation

Answer 14

“Law written on the heart”

Question 15

General Revelation

Answer 15

Every human being receives this.

Makes us aware of God’s existence and requirements so that we cannot help knowing that we have a problem with sin.

Question 16

Special Revelation

Answer 16

Transmitted by witnesses and recorded only in the Bible.

Tells us how to solve the problem of sin.

Question 17

Core Principles

Answer 17

These are the laws that we CANT NOT know

Question 18

Derived Principles

Answer 18

Our knowledge of these principles are Weakened by neglect and erased by culture.

Question 19

Moral Relativism

Answer 19

Simply denying that the core principles are right for all.

Question 20

Mere Moral Realism

Answer 20

Admits that the core principles are right for all, BUT denies they are known to all.

Question 21

Objective Needs produced by guilty knowledge

Answer 21

Confession, Atonement, Reconciliation, and Justification

Question 22

Noahide Commandments

Answer 22

Also known as Natural Law because God had given certain general rules to all the descendants of noah.

Question 23

Natural Law

Answer 23

Suffering the Natural consequences of violation of the law.

Question 24

Utilitarianism

Answer 24

Secular versions states that the morally right action is always the one that brings about the greatest possible total happiness.

Question 25

Thomas Aquinas

Answer 25

Gave the best summary of Natural Law | Moral law is right for all and known to all.

Question 26

Diminishers of the Disciplinary effects of natural consequences

Answer 26

1. Time lag: not every consequence of violating the natural law strikes immediately. 2. Comes from us "Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good." Escape

Question 27

Friedrich Nietzsche

Answer 27

"If men took God seriously, they would still be burning heretics at the stake.

Question 28

Types of Skeptics

Answer 28

Utter skeptic, Partial Skeptic, Non-skeptic

Question 29

Reasons for Tolerance

Answer 29

To prevent greater evils or advance greater good. (classical approach)

Question 30

Errors of Intolerance

Answer 30

Softheadedness; an excess of indulgence | Narrowmindedness: a deficiency of indulgence

Question 31

Definition of Tolerance

Answer 31

To put up with it even though we might be tempted to suppress it.

Question 32

Definition of Religion

Answer 32

It is an ultimate concern or unconditioned loyalty | Either acknowledged, unacknowledged, or incomplete.

Question 33

Aristotle

Answer 33

Interdependence of all moral virtues

Question 34

Unity of the Virtues

Answer 34

Every moral virtue depends on practical wisdom and vice versa.

Question 35

Compensation

Answer 35

Violation of a basic human bond leads to burdened conscience to instantly establish an abnormal one.

Question 36

Recruitment

Answer 36

Transgressors strive to gather a substitute community around themselves or require society to submit. (al-Queida)

Question 37

Need to Confess

Answer 37

Guilt cuts us off from God and man

Question 38

Need to Atone

Answer 38

Arises from the knowledge of a Debt that must be paid

Question 39

Need to Confess

Answer 39

Arises from transgression against the truth.

Question 40

What Deterrence presupposes

Answer 40

1. Inhibition of Acts of Vice by the Threat of Legal Punishment 2. Limited Effectiveness

Question 41

Hume on Public Virtue

Answer 41

Observed that men act less virtuously in their public capacities than in their private because they are driven less by a craven for goodness than by a desire for honor.

Question 42

Filtration Strategies

Answer 42

Ascription, Achievement, Examination, Approbation.

Question 43

Types of Rectitude and their Deviations

Answer 43

Rectitude of Judgment: Lost by only seeing part of the picture Rectitude of Passion: Lost through excess or deficiency. Rectitude of will:

Question 44

Constitutional Balance

Answer 44

Setting selfish groups against each other so as to Check Vice and Give Leverage to virtue.

Question 45

Aristotle

Answer 45

Theory of balance said the Few and the Many might be balanced by a middle class.

Question 46

Channeling

Answer 46

Virtuous motives are shaped and directed so that they give rise to the same behavior to which virtue would give rise.

Question 47

Augustine on the love of Glory

Answer 47

Roman required a society to fixed statuses and an arena for compensation in quest of glory.

Question 48

Adam Smith and Alexis de Tocqueville

Answer 48

Believed that commercial love of wealth requires a society to fixed statuses and an arena for competition in the pursuit of gain.

Question 49

G.K. Chesterton

Answer 49

"The Well and the Shadows" | Wrote why he hated hitlers way of not defending the family.

Question 50

Paradoxes of Inculcation

Answer 50

Paradox of the Treacherous Good, Paradox of Elevation, Paradox of Countervailing Vice.

Question 51

Paradox of the Treacherous Good

Answer 51

Lesson: a man must be turned around (convert)

Question 52

Paradox of Elevation

Answer 52

Lesson: A man must be turned in the right direction (word of God)

Question 53

Paradox of Conutervailing Vice

Answer 53

Lesson: A man must be transformed (Gods grace)

Question 54

Subsidiarity

Answer 54

Govt honors virtue and protects its teachers, but w/o attempting to take their place. The state must get out of the way of the true teachers and keep other things from getting in their way.