Chapter 1 Flashcards

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Telologically

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Inbuilt purposes

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Telos means what in English

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It is an end or purpose

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Natural law is found in four places

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Greek philosophy
Old Testament
New Testament
Orthodox Christianity

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Aristotles quote

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Nature is a cause that operates for a purpose

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Purpose is given in what

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Purpose is not man made it is in the thing itself

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The laws of nature are three things

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Pre existing
Universal
Immutable

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The laws of nature we don’t

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Make them they apply to everyone

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Customs change from time to time but

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Nature is universal the universe is intelligible and people can comprehend the order

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Truth

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Mind can know different things from your opinions

There is a purpose to every living thing John Paul

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Acorn analogy

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Acorn makes an acorn not a giraffe

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Man discovers through reason his life could be

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A life of virtue rather than vice

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Moral relativism

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Non teleological, opposite of natural law, truth changes from

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Licentiousness

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Doing whatever we want when we want

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Christian meaning of freedom

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Licentousness, the capacity the shape ourselves to determine the direction of our lives, we are free to shape ourselves

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Physical laws

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Not really laws but merely an explanation

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Three aspects of a moral act

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The object chosen
The intention (the “end”)
The circumstances surrounding the action

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Utilitarianism

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Pleasure is the greatest good suffering the greatest evil

“If it feels good for most people do it”

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Hedonism

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If it feels good do it regardless of other people

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Democratism

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One of the 2 un examined assumptions at the foundation of modern culture, it decides what is right and wrong

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Empiricism

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Trusts only in the knowledge gained from the human reason and the sensations if the physical world

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Moral relativism

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Is non theological, the opposite of natural law, that truth changes from person to person

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Licentiousness

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Freedom to do whatever we want

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Natural law

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“written in our hearts some things are right or ring regardless of culture time or location

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Scientism

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Trusts only in what has been proven through science

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Who wrote rerum novarum
Pope Leo XIII
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Compassion is to feeling as solidarity is to
Action
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Common good
the common good is the good that is shared by all common. It is the sum total of social conditions that allow people as groups or individuals to reach their fulfillment
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Cardinal joe Bergoglio says the root of all problems is
Marginalization of people | - not treating them with respect, regarding them as nothing
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Soft soap
Cafeteria catholic, people pick and choose what they want to follow, when it gets hard they back out
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Characteristics of truth
Universal un changing something we desire
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Peter Maurin
Catholic social activist who founded the Catholic Worker Movement in 1933 with Dorothy Day. Maurin expressed his ideas through short pieces of verse that became known as Easy Essays
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Dorothy day
Founded the newspaper, the catholic worker movement
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Erroneous conscience
Falsely indicates a good action as bad and evil action is good
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Scrupulous
Seeing evil where there is none
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Lax conscience
Great sins are permissible, don't care
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Doubtful conscience
One which leaves a person undecided, not sure what to do
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2357-2359
Called to respect homosexuals
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Imago Dei
In gods image
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Subsidiarity
Individuals should accomplish their own their own with their goals shouldn't be accomplished by higher authority
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Common arguments against moral law
Conscience reveals a moral law
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What is materialist view
Matter and space just happen, humans created by change
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We should be uneasy because
God isn't as indulgent as we think he is | He is a comfort but also a supreme terror