Chapter 1 Flashcards
Telologically
Inbuilt purposes
Telos means what in English
It is an end or purpose
Natural law is found in four places
Greek philosophy
Old Testament
New Testament
Orthodox Christianity
Aristotles quote
Nature is a cause that operates for a purpose
Purpose is given in what
Purpose is not man made it is in the thing itself
The laws of nature are three things
Pre existing
Universal
Immutable
The laws of nature we don’t
Make them they apply to everyone
Customs change from time to time but
Nature is universal the universe is intelligible and people can comprehend the order
Truth
Mind can know different things from your opinions
There is a purpose to every living thing John Paul
Acorn analogy
Acorn makes an acorn not a giraffe
Man discovers through reason his life could be
A life of virtue rather than vice
Moral relativism
Non teleological, opposite of natural law, truth changes from
Licentiousness
Doing whatever we want when we want
Christian meaning of freedom
Licentousness, the capacity the shape ourselves to determine the direction of our lives, we are free to shape ourselves
Physical laws
Not really laws but merely an explanation
Three aspects of a moral act
The object chosen
The intention (the “end”)
The circumstances surrounding the action
Utilitarianism
Pleasure is the greatest good suffering the greatest evil
“If it feels good for most people do it”
Hedonism
If it feels good do it regardless of other people
Democratism
One of the 2 un examined assumptions at the foundation of modern culture, it decides what is right and wrong
Empiricism
Trusts only in the knowledge gained from the human reason and the sensations if the physical world
Moral relativism
Is non theological, the opposite of natural law, that truth changes from person to person
Licentiousness
Freedom to do whatever we want
Natural law
“written in our hearts some things are right or ring regardless of culture time or location
Scientism
Trusts only in what has been proven through science
Who wrote rerum novarum
Pope Leo XIII
Compassion is to feeling as solidarity is to
Action
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
Cardinal joe Bergoglio says the root of all problems is
Marginalization of people
- not treating them with respect, regarding them as nothing
Soft soap
Cafeteria catholic, people pick and choose what they want to follow, when it gets hard they back out
Characteristics of truth
Universal un changing something we desire
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
Dorothy day
Founded the newspaper, the catholic worker movement
Erroneous conscience
Falsely indicates a good action as bad and evil action is good
Scrupulous
Seeing evil where there is none
Lax conscience
Great sins are permissible, don’t care
Doubtful conscience
One which leaves a person undecided, not sure what to do
2357-2359
Called to respect homosexuals
Imago Dei
In gods image
Subsidiarity
Individuals should accomplish their own their own with their goals shouldn’t be accomplished by higher authority
Common arguments against moral law
Conscience reveals a moral law
What is materialist view
Matter and space just happen, humans created by change
We should be uneasy because
God isn’t as indulgent as we think he is
He is a comfort but also a supreme terror
