Ethics and Morals Unit 1 Flashcards
What question drives the study of ethics
How to live life happily
What did Augustine and Aquinas believe about happiness?
It’s connected to goodness
According to Augustine and Aquinas, how do we become happy?
Being good
What is the best way to understand Christian Ethics
Education throughout life about being ethical
What does Christian moral theology want to know
How being a Christian changes how we live our life
Ethics of Doing
This way of viewing ethics focuses on rules, correct action, and is connected with Canon Law.
Ethics of Being
Together with Virtue Theory, this focuses less on “rule keeping” and more on cultivating character and virtue.
Ethics
Set of principles and standards of right and wrong
Morals
Guided principles and personal values that influence how we view right and wrong
Continent
Not in harmony with virtue but still chooses the good because of external factors
Incontinet
Not in harmony with virtue. Knows what is right but dosen’t choose the good
Vicious
Feels no conflict between moral duty and inclinations. Selfish and does not feel guilt
Virtuous
Trained emotional systems to be in line with the good
How do we define right action
If its in accordance w/ natural law
Moral act depends on
The object and intention of the act
Circumstance can ____ or _____ the moral goodness of an act
Increase or diminish
What is conscience not
An inner voice or feeling
A person must obey conscience if it is ____ and ____
Fully formed and Reflective
Vincible ignorance
Choosing to remain willfully ignorant
Invincible ignorance
Could not have known better
