Key Terms

Question 1

Ratio?

Answer 1

The word used by Aquinas to describe reason, something which is placed in every person as a result of their being created in the image of God.

Question 2

Synderesis?

Answer 2

For Aquinas, this means to follow the good and avoid the evil, the rule that all precepts follow.

Question 3

Id?

Answer 3

For Freud, this is the part of the mind that has in instinctive impulses that seek satisfaction in pleasure.

Question 4

Super-ego?

Answer 4

Freud uses this word to describe the part of the mind that contradicts the id and uses internalised ideals from parents and society to make the ego behave morally.

Question 5

Ego?

Answer 5

Freud uses this word to describe the mediation between the id and the super-ego.

Question 6

Conscientia?

Answer 6

This is the name Aquinas gives to the process whereby a person’s reason makes moral judgements.

Question 7

Vincible ignorance?

Answer 7

This is how Aquinas describes a lack of knowledge for which a person is responsible, and can be blamed.

Question 8

Invincible ignorance?

Answer 8

This is how Aquinas describes a lack of knowledge for which a person isn’t responsible, and can’t be blamed.