Test Questions Flashcards
(20 cards)
Where is the kingdom of God? MC
the kingdom is present in and with his own person
What is predestination? MC
God’s eternal decree by which what he willed to become of each man
(events come from god)
What does the conversion refer to in the course? MC
What expands our moral vision, it reorients our moral landscape
Basis of natural law MC
God’s plan is built into us, moral duties can be ascertained by reflection of human nature
What is the reformation? MC
challenged the RCC emphasis on good works and human efforts to earn salvation
Modern Catholic focuses on tradition, scripture or both?-MC
emphasized tradition and scripture
Protestant church focuses on tradition, scripture or both?-MC
emphasis on scripture
religious realm? MC
human existence that concerns ultimate value and meaning.
How is ethics defined in this course?
ethics is the activity of knowing and doing good behaviour. It is knowing what constitutes good acts and doing them in the concrete situation of our lives.
Levels and meanings of good
good that satisfies personal desires/interests, good that calls for critical evaluation of the social orders
What is devine ethics?
divine command ethics are actions that are deemed morally good depending if it was commanded by God
What does conversion mean?
what expands our moral vision. it is a liberating but painful experience because it usually means leaving behind something as we reach forward to grasp something new
What is the surplus of evil?
beyond what can be blamed on individuals ex) Manhattan project. This surplus pushes us into the religious realm
What is the moral process?
- experiencing: involves attentiveness
- judging: involves reason
- understanding: involves intelligence
- deciding: capacity to respond
What is moral deliberation?
- include and integral to the process of living ethically
- Morla horizons-the way we see things
- Conversion-reach full potential
- Feelings- animate our desire to be moral
Types of Freedom
Domination of freedom: someone was controlling you and my actions
Freedom from self-determination: full control over yourself-capacity to act
Essential freedom: there is nothing stopping you
Effective freedom: the limits of that capacity ex) skills
What is ethics in a social structure?
social structures have value ex) university. These can be undetermined through lack of transparency, cheating etc. The good of this structure needs to be re-evalutated
Difference between moral evil and pre-moral evil
moral evil-doing intentional actions to do something wrong
-pre-moral evil- accidents ex) flooding
Nature of evil
According to Thomas Aquinas, evil is the privation of good.
evil is the absence of good that should have been there by its very nature
Divine command ethics means:
a) an act is right because God commanded it
B) god commands an act because it is right
A)
