good & evil Flashcards
1
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conscience
A
- human reason making moral decisions
- knowledge of what is right and wrong - avoid evil
2
Q
evil
A
- absence of good
- impulse to seek our own desires
3
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free will
A
- decision-making part of a person’s mind
- choose right from wrong
4
Q
goodness
A
- the quality of being like god
- seeking the well-being of others selflessly
5
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incarnation
A
- ‘made flesh’
- the belief that god became man in the person of jesus, fully human and fully divine
6
Q
natural law
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- moral laws of right and wrong
- not dependant on right and wrong
7
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privation
A
- lack of good
- evil is a privation of good
8
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suffering
A
- pain/loss that harms human beings
- moral - caused by someone else
