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Question 1

called the angelic doctor and the prince of scholastics

Answer 1

thomas aquinas

Question 2

ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by someone who has care of the community

Answer 2

law

Question 3

for Aquinas, there are 4 primary types of law

Answer 3

eternal, natural, human, divine

Question 4

refers to the rational plan of God by which all creation is ordered.

Answer 4

eternal law

Question 5

is that aspect of the eternal law which is accessible to human reason

Answer 5

natural law

Question 6

refers to the positive laws. precise,. civil and criminal laws.

Answer 6

human law

Question 7

serve to complement the other type of law. law of revelation, disclosed through sacred tests or scriptures and the church.

Answer 7

divine law

Question 8

type of law that is primarily significant in ethics

Answer 8

natural law

Question 9

bu virtue of a faculty of moral insight or conscience that thomas called _____, we also have natural inclinations to some specific goods

Answer 9

synderesis

Question 10

aquinas enumerates three sets of inclinations

Answer 10

1. to survive
2. to reproduce and educate offspring
3. to know the truth about God and to live peacefully in society

Question 11

Aquinas mentions 3 aspects through which the morality of an act can be determined in terms of

Answer 11

1. species
2. accidents
3. end

Question 12

___ of an action refers to its kind. also called the object of the action

Answer 12

species

Question 13

simply refer to the circumstances surrounding the action

Answer 13

accidents

Question 14

stands for the agent’s intention

Answer 14

end

Question 15

Aquinas defines _____ as a good habit bearing on activity

Answer 15

virtue

Question 16

are firm dispositions or “hard to eradicate” qualities that dispose us to act in a particular manner

Answer 16

habits

Question 17

the autonomous will of a person plays a major role in ___ as they involve a consistent deliberate effort to do an act time and time again and despite obstructions

Answer 17

acquired habits

Question 18

are independent of this process as they are directly instilled by God in our faculties. these are divine gifts which we elevate the activities

Answer 18

infused habits

Question 19

2 kinds of infused virtues

Answer 19

moral and theological

Question 20

have as their subject not God himself, but activities that are less virtuous and inferior to the final end.

Answer 20

moral virtues

Question 21

to this kind (moral virtues) belong the 4 basic virtues

Answer 21

prudence, fortitude, temperance, justice

Question 22

are concerned directly with God

Answer 22

theological virtues

Question 23

to this kind (theological virtue) belong the virtues of

Answer 23

faith, hope, love