Context - Setting Flashcards

1
Q

Prevalence of deceit and dishonesty, corruption, manipulation and a deadening preoccupation with narrow political interests

A

Erosion of moral values

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2
Q

THE THREATS TO LIFE DIRECTLY AFFLICT

THE ____ AND THE ____

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WEAK and DEFENSELESS

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3
Q

The present generation is characterized by
the extraordinary increase and
gravity of ___to life.

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threats

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4
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THREATS TO LIFE:

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WHATEVER IS OPPOSED TO LIFE
WHATEVER VIOLATES THE INTEGRITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
WHATEVER INSULTS HUMAN DIGNITY

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5
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Murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia, suicide

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WHATEVER IS OPPOSED TO LIFE

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6
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mutilation, torments inflicted on body and mind

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WHATEVER VIOLATES THE INTEGRITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON

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7
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Subhuman living conditions 
slavery 
imprisonment 
human trafficking 
disgraceful working conditions
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WHATEVER INSULTS HUMAN DIGNITY

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8
Q

Progress in science and technology

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Regress in moral life

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9
Q

IT IS GRAVE AND DISTURBING
THAT CONSCIENCE IS DARKENED
BY WIDESPREAD CONDITIONING

AS A RESULT,
IT HAS BECOME DIFFICULT
TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL

A

SYMPTOMATIC OF MORAL DECLINE

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10
Q

SYMPTOMATIC OF MORAL DECLINE: Crime against life are ___ and ___

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Go unpunished
and Made
Legal

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11
Q

Indications of Moral Decline

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moral permissiveness
relativism
loss of morals

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12
Q

allows anything and does not even care of the results of one’s actions

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moral permissiveness

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13
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does not consider, the objective values, in themselves, but realizes them simply for one’s convenience according to situations

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relativism

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14
Q

excludes moral values in their judgment of human behavior

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loss of morals

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15
Q

life giving

A

moral assendancy

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16
Q

death dealing

A

moral decline

17
Q

Three things to do from Micah 6:8

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to act justly, to love tenderly and to walk humbly with your God

18
Q

As there are ethos and mores that govern our needs which come from our bodily space-time limitations

A

technical norms

19
Q

As there are ethos and mores that has to do with the need for group cohesion and for strengthening the bonds that keep the community together

A

societal norm

20
Q

As there are ethos and mores regarding color, shape, space, movement… in the natural and in man-made environment

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aesthetic norm

21
Q

There are also ethos and mores that govern those things which the community cherishes and considers of ultimate worth, which gives ultimate sense and direction to human existence

A

moral norm

22
Q

a more or less permanent behavior in accordance with the precepts of the natural moral law which is universally known and common to all men

A

custom

23
Q

guides the intellect in the acquisition and application of the moral principles. Also compels man to follow the directions to his ultimate destiny

A

role of ethics

24
Q

Classical definition: It is a theological research which in the light of revealed principles studies voluntary human acts in relation to their final end.

A

Moral Theology

25
Q

a study concerned with morality, of the good and evil of human acts, and is theology, in so far as the end and the beginning are found in God.

A

Moral Theology

26
Q

It is a scientific reflection on the Gospel as the gift and commandment of new life, a reflection on the life which ‘professes the truth in love’ (cf Eph 4: 15) and on the Church’s life of holiness, in which there shines forth the truth about the good brought to its perfection.

A

1993 Veritatis Splendor

27
Q

Sources of Moral Theology

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Tradition
Scripture
Magisteruim
Reason/Experience

28
Q

The most salient characteristic of ethics

A

grounded in reason and human experience

29
Q

horizontal ethics

A

Secular

ethics

30
Q

vertical ethics

A

Religious

ethics

31
Q

are instituted to promote well-being

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laws

32
Q

God’s revelation of the moral law in nature or conscience holds that reason can discover what is right or wrong even apart from divine revelation

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natural law

33
Q

morality as to refer to a code of conduct put forward by a society or, some other group, such as a religion, or
accepted by an individual for her own behavior

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descriptively

34
Q

morality as to refer to a code of conduct that, given specified conditions, would be put forward by all rational persons

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normatively

35
Q

One should be moral because (7)

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1 Morality is that which sustains life.
2 Sin is that which destroys life.
3 Morality is the standard of human relations.
4 Morality is constructivity;
5 Sin as destructivity.
6 Morality is solving problems;
7 Sin is creating problems