Theo - Lesson 3

Question 1

The three elements/sources of morality of human acts

Answer 1

object, intention, and circumstance

Question 2

Which source of morality is being defined:

Good toward which the will deliberately directs itself

Answer 2

Object

Question 3

Which source of morality is being defined:

Matter of a human act

Answer 3

Object

Question 4

Morally specifies the act of the will, insofar as reason recognizes and judges it to be or not to be in conformity with the true good

Answer 4

Object

Question 5

This resides in the acting subject

Answer 5

Intention

Question 6

Determines an action by its end*

Answer 6

Intention

Question 7

____ is the first goal of intention

Answer 7

End

Question 8

Good anticipated from the action

Answer 8

intention

Question 9

The end can justify the means of an action

Answer 9

False

Question 10

Which source of morality is the secondary elements of a moral act

Answer 10

Circumstances

Question 11

This contributes to increasing or diminishing the moral goodness or evil of human acts

Answer 11

Circumstances

Question 12

Circumstances may change the moral quality of an act

Answer 12

False

It can’t

Question 13

These affect human acts in the essential qualities of the three constituents of morality

Answer 13

Modifiers of Human Acts

Question 14

Absence of knowledge that ought to be present

Answer 14

privative ignorance

Question 15

Frailty or proneness to evil

Answer 15

Concupiscence

Question 16

Refers to bodily appetites or tendencies

Answer 16

Passions

Question 17

Absence of knowledge that is supposed to be present

Answer 17

Positive ignorance

Question 18

Considered a mistake

Answer 18

Positive ignorance

Question 19

Neglecting knowledge

Answer 19

Negative ignorance

Question 20

Passions that spring to action unstimulated by any act of the will

Answer 20

Antecedent

-> considered as the “if” statement

Question 21

Called ______ when the will directly or
indirectly stirs them up or fosters them (passions)

Answer 21

Consequent

-> considered as the “then” statement

Question 22

Antecedent or Consequent

Considered as an act of man

Answer 22

Antecedent

-> because this is before it happens

Question 23

_______ concupiscence is the fault of the agent, for it is willed, either directly or indirectly, either in itself or in cause

Answer 23

Consequent

-> happens AFTER

Question 24

Shrinking back

Answer 24

fear

Question 25

Agitation of the mind brought about by apprehension of impending evil

Answer 25

fear

Question 26

True or False

Violence is internal force applied by a free cause for the purpose of compelling a person

Answer 26

false

• it is external

Question 27

Violence cannot reach the will directly

true or false

Answer 27

true

Question 28

This may force bodily action, but the will is not controlled by the body

Answer 28

violence

Question 29

true or false

habits are not definite

Answer 29

False.

They are definite; comparatively permanent qualities

Question 30

Permanent inclination and facility
to perform morally good acts

Answer 30

Virtues

Question 31

______ virtues are principal virtues among several groups of virtues.

Answer 31

cardinal

Question 32

______ inclines man’s will to render unto each one his due

Answer 32

Justice

Question 33

______ is the moral virtue which regulates the desire for sensible pleasure within the limits of right reason

Answer 33

Temperance

Question 34

_____ inclines the will to overcome grave danger and to sustain severe hardship in the pursuit and maintenance of the moral good

Answer 34

Fortitude

Question 35

Permanent inclination and facility to perform morally bad acts

Answer 35

Vices

Question 36

What is the queen of all vices

Answer 36

Pride

Question 37

Inordinate desire to manifest one’s own excellence and to receive praise from me

Answer 37

Vainglory

Question 38

Inordinate love of having possessions or riches

Answer 38

Avarice

Question 39

Inordinate desire for revenge

Answer 39

Anger

Question 40

Sadness on account of the goods possessed by another

Answer 40

Envy

Question 41

Sorrow in the face of spiritual good since it is God’s good

Answer 41

Sloth