ch 17 vocab

Question 0

Doubtful conscience

Answer 0

Somewhat of a contradiction in terms as it is a judgment to hesitate in passing judgment on the moral character of an act

Question 1

Culpability

Answer 1

More responsibility for one’s actions

Question 2

Erroneous conscience

Answer 2

And of the practical into like that decides from false principles considered as true and that something is lawful which in fact is unlawful

Question 3

Free will

Answer 3

The ability to shape one’s own life

Question 4

Freedom

Answer 4

The power, rooted in reason and will do act or not to come to do this or that, and so to perform deliberately on one’s own responsibility

Question 5

Invincible ignorance

Answer 5

Lack of knowledge, either a fact or of law, for which a person is not morally responsible to do to the difficulty of the object of knowledge, scarcity of evidence, insufficient time or talent in the person, or some other factor

Question 6

Reason

Answer 6

That in till actual power or faculty which is ordinarily employed by man and adapting through or action to some end; the guiding principle of the human mind in the process of thinking

Question 7

True conscience

Answer 7

Judgment of the practical intellect that deuces correctly from Joe principles that some act is lawful

Question 8

Vincible ignorance

Answer 8

Lack of knowledge for what a person is morally responsible to do to lack of diligence