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Agent

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An agent is a person who act freely and knowingly, who chooses to do or not to do something; a person who is accountable for his or her actions or omissions

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Narcissism

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A disorder marked by self absorption to the exclusion of others

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Ethics

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the search of the highest good

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Morality

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is our manners, customs, actions, and habits that help us achieve the highest good

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Character

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the way your actions, over time, become a fixed part of you

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Vices

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bad habits

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Virtues

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good habits

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Guilt

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What you have DONE is flawed

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Shame

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YOU are flawed

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Parousia

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the second coming of Christ

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Conscience

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With (con) Knowledge (science). A judgement of reason whereby a person recognizes the moral quality of an action they are going to perform, are performing, or have preformed

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Freedom

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The more one does what is good, the freer one becomes.

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Natural Law

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God made us pre-loaded with all we need to do good

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Covenant

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An agreement between God and humans

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Human Rights

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We are created in the image of God. The government cannot take away our human rights

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Legal Rights

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Rights granted by the government

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Privilege

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Benefit or advantage enjoyed by a person, corporation or class beyond the common advantages of other citizens

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Superego

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Someone else’s conscious gets put onto you and that becomes an internal censor. You change your rules out of fear of being shamed

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Providence

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Is the belief that you are being led by God’s love. God is leading you to your best end.

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Vocation

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A call from God

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Naturalism

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The belief that the universe is a whole unified system. Everything is shaped by natural process

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Gospel

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Good news

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Religious Determinism

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Everything is predetermind by God, leaving humans with no free will

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Justice

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To ensure the well being of others as well as ourselves

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Poverty

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Is the lack of enough income and resources to live adequately by community standards

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Absolute Poverty

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people’s lives are threatened because they can not afford basic necessities

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Relative Poverty

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you have enough money for basic needs, but do not have the means to maintain an average standard of wealth in relation to others in the society in which you live in

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Social Determinism

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You aren’t truly free because you are the product of what other have done to you

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Sensible Goods

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Are any and all goods that can be experiences through the 5 senses

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Intelligible Goods

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They can be perceived through one’s intellect

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Moral Relativism

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Believes there are no absolute values, only those that are useful in the secular culture. Everything is dependant on one’s own point-of-view

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Sin

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An immoral act

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Happiness

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Happiness is a long term feeling on contentment and joys

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Pleasure

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Pleasure is only temporary

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Norms

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the person we ought to be and the sorts of actions we ought to perform

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Laws

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a reasonable decision made by a responsible authority figure for the common good

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Rules

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A guide for conduct or action

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Maxim

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A general truth or rule of conduct

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Ethical Maxim

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principles that apply to everyone

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Secularism

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Living as if God/Gods don’t exist

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Atheism

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do not believe in God/Gods

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Individualism

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the exaltation of the individual self over all other considerations

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Consumerism

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putting material goods and personal appearance as more important than inner development or true personal relationships

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Deontological

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“Deon” comes from the word duty and Kant believed that what is central is the will and some things in life can draw us away from our duty

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Scream

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A scream forces awareness in you and makes you feel responsible

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Beggar

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Face to face interactions reminds us of our responsibilities to others

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Duty

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Feeling obligated to obey

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Intolerable

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Feeling of outraged by something unjust happening to you or others

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Aristotle

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  • Telos means the end
  • reaching ultimate happiness by virtuous living, living in moderation, and living in the polis
  • if you do not live in the polis you are a beast
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Kant

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  • Theoretical reasoning: what we do
  • Practical reasoning: what we ought to do
  • Subjective: your own perception and understanding of reality
  • Objective: relating to a sensible experience that is independent of one individual’ thought and can be perceived by others
  • duty
  • Universal Law: treat others the way you want to be treated
  • Means to an end: treat others as a mean and an end. Do not just use someone to achieve your end because they are a person too
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Levinas

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  • traces of God in others faces
  • Human face is the most naked part of a person
  • thrill of astonishment: stranger becomes the “Other”
  • the face is ethical and holds you accountable
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Aquinas

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  • Natural Law
  • In everyone’s core is a desire for good. Believed people were made for happiness, but that happiness does not end with life on earth
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4 Cardinal Virtues

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  • Prudence: how to reason well with moral decision making
  • Temperance: remaining moderate in high emotion times
  • Fortitude: being courageous in hard times
  • Justice: how to act good towards others
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3 theological virtues

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  • Charity: God’s love for us
  • Hope: believe in God and believe that the next day will be better
  • Faith: first God self-revealing action become a virtue in us
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CFA

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  • Agent
  • Intention
  • Action
  • Circumstances: Mitging/Aggravating
  • With/Against whom?
  • Outcome
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4 types of conscience

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  • Well-formed: Uses scripture, church, and community
  • Wrongly-formed: on information that was mistaken
  • Lax: Not being concerned whether or not an act is right or wrong
  • Legalistic: Obeying rules perfectly; following letter of law rather than script
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5 symptoms of a misinformed conscience

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  • Rationalization: Using logic to justify a bad act
  • Trivialization: to make something less important
  • Misinformation: when the information you get is flawed, but is presented as credible and believable
  • The end justifies the immoral means: where the end is so good, that a bad act to achieve it can be justified
  • Difficult to reason: when the decision is understandably clouded by emotion, and immoral act is acceptable due to the circumstances
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Kinds of Guilt

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  • Warranted Guilt: when we know an act is wrong and we do it anyways then recognize and accept that what we did was in fact wrong
  • Unwarranted Guilt: There is no real justifiable reason to feel guilty. This guilt occurs when we have a wrongly formed conscience
  • Too Little Guilt: not caring for wrongdoing. This guilt occurs when we have a lax conscience
  • Excessive Guilt: Guilt out of proportion to the severity of the wrongdoing. This guilt occurs when we have legalistic conscience
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3 senses of conscience

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  • Capacity: to know the good, do good, and avoid evil
  • Process: our conscience formed by many sources of moral wisdom and then engages in a process of reflection and analysis
  • Judgement: judgement and decision of what I need to do
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Justice

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  • striving to ensure the well being of others as well as ourselves
  • the root of evil is in individual sin
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Salt/Light

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  • Salt: you are salt and you should add more value by being in someones life
  • Light: you should show off your talents
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Anger

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Anger impulses against others is just as bad as murder.

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Adultery

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Adultery is a sin and divorce leads to adultery

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Oaths

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never swear by God and do not disrespect him

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Retaliation

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Do not seek out revenge and payback evil with kindness

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Love for enemies

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love both our enemies and our neighbours

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Almsgiving

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Practice your religion to please God and yourself, not to seek approval from others

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Prayer

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Pray genuinely, not just because it is what you should do

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Fasting

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Do not change your appearance when you are fasting. God will see when you fast in private and will reward you accordingly

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Treasure/Worry

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  • Worrying does not help you. Do not spend time worrying about earthly problems as God knows what you need
  • Do not focus on materialism things as they always come and go
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Judging Others

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Do not point out someone’s wrongdoings. Work on improving yourself then improving others

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Ask, Search, Knock

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Anyone who works towards an end goal will eventually get what they want. If you were to give something bad to someone searching for good, that person would be considered an “evildoer”

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Narrow Gate

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If it is easy, it is destruction. People in life will be out to get you, but come to you has a friend. For example, wolf disguised as a sheep

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Hearers/Doers

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Difficult days are guaranteed for everyone

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Self-decepetion

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If someone is on their deathbed asking God for forgiveness and pity, after living a life of sins, expecting to get into the kingdom of Heaven, the sinner won’t get in.

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