chapter 3 and 10

Question 1

external freedom

Answer 1

includes freedom from factors outside ourselves that threaten or destroy our power to exercise choice; for example, the freedom from poverty of the freedom from tyranny

Question 2

internal freedom

Answer 2

includes freedom from interior factors that limit choice

Question 3

moral principles

Answer 3

fundamental statements about right and wrong

Question 4

common good

Answer 4

the sum total of social conditions which allow people, wither as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily

Question 5

complaisance

Answer 5

pleasing others so they can carry out your wishes

Question 6

detraction

Answer 6

revealing a person’s faults and failings to someone who did not previously know about them and who had no need or right to know about them

Question 7

envy

Answer 7

sadness over another person’s possessions and the desire to get them for oneself

Question 8

perjury

Answer 8

false witness under oath

Question 9

avarice

Answer 9

the passionate desire for riches and the power that comes with them

Question 10

dissimulation

Answer 10

hiding something by pretense

Question 11

greed

Answer 11

desire to accumulate unlimited goods

Question 12

hypocrisy

Answer 12

the false claim or pretense of having admirable principles, beliefs, or feelings

Question 13

adulation

Answer 13

giving excessive admiration to someone

Question 14

inadvertence

Answer 14

that is, not paying attention or being distracted while we are acting

Question 15

duress

Answer 15

our freedom is certainly impeded when someone tries to force us to do something

Question 16

calumny

Answer 16

lying about others so people will make false judgements about them

Question 17

flattery

Answer 17

paying someone a compliment to gain a favor

Question 18

natural law morality

Answer 18

emphasizes the use of reason, the capacity within us that is uniquely human

Question 19

legalism

Answer 19

refers to emphasizing strict observance of the law

Question 20

moral minimalism

Answer 20

bare minimum required of us by law

Question 21

moralism

Answer 21

being overly concerned with making moral judgments or being uncharitable in the judgments one makes

Question 22

moral laziness

Answer 22

only keeping a law, separate from personal initiative and thoughtfulness