Lesson B - Jesus Christ as the Good Teacher Flashcards

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Certain currents of thought have gone so far as to exalt freedom to such an extent that it becomes an _______, which would then be the source of ______.

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absolute; values

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A radically subjectivistic conception of moral judgment or individualist ethic is:

where the individual conscience is accorded the status of a supreme ___________ which hands down ______ and ______ decisions

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tribunal of moral judgment; categorical and infallible

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A number of disciplines, grouped under the name behavioral sciences, have rightly drawn attention to many kinds of psychological and social conditionings which influence the exercise of _______.

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Freedom

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Some theories, using scientific research about the human person argue from a great variety of ______ , ___________, and________ present in humanity, end up with an outright denial of universal human values, with a relativistic conception of morality

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customs
behavior patterns
institutions

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ALTERNATIVE ETHICAL SYSTEMS

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  1. Eudaemonism and Utilitarianism
  2. Ethics of self-perfection, self-actualization or self-realization
  3. Ethics for its own sake, with an emphasis on moral duty
  4. Relativism, Emotivism, Subjectivism
  5. Social Darwinism
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describes that:
pleasure and happiness in this world is the only good;
pain and sorrow the real evil

The aim is to maximize personal gratification and happiness, through pleasure, comfort and good material living standards.

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Eudaemonism

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John Stuart Mill and Jeremey Bentham advocated the greatest happiness of the greatest number. Every action is judged in relation to this end

What Alternative Ethical System?

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Utilitarianism

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emphasizes the quality of the good achieved in the end

who is it? starts with J

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John Stuart Mill

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emphasizes the quantity of those who will benefit from the achieved good.

J.B

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Jeremy Bentham

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The ultimate purpose of human life is to realize one’s true self and authentic personality

verges on individualism, tending to devalue the world and others, while emphasizing one’s own development

What ethical system?

Man’s purpose is to grow, having as many wonderful experiences as possible.

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Under Ethical System #2
Ethics of self-perfection, self-actualization or self-realization

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Under Ethical System #2

– Superman and his will to power
– it is man’s internal drive for greatness and creativity

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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

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Under Ethical System #2
_______ is the term used by M______H_____ to refer to being which understands its own being.

it is a conscious being, and is the kind of consciousness which belongs to human beings

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Da-sein; MARTIN HEIDEGGER

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Under Ethical System #2
- Das Nichts
- Geworfenheit
- Das Gerede
- Uneigentlichkeit
- Eigentlichkeit

What are these called?

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Authentic Human Existence

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Confront Nothingness

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Das Nichts

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Overcome thrownness

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Geworfenheit

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Break away with the Chatter

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Das Gerede

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17
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Break away with Inauthenticity

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Uneigentlichkeit

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Achieve authenticity

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Eigentlichkeit

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Ethical System #3

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Ethics for its own sake, with an emphasis on moral duty

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An act must be done from obligation in order to have moral worth

“An action’s moral value is due to the maxim from which it is performed, rather than to its success in realizing some desired end or purpose.”

Obligation is the necessity of an action performed from respect for law.”

Principles of ?

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Principles of Kantian Ethics

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Ethical System #4

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Relativism, Emotivism, Subjectivism

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It denies the existence of a universal human nature and universal moral norms, binding on all persons at all times.

Even where a particular moral stance is considered valid in the majority of cases, “conscience” or feelings may permit exceptions to the “norm”.

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RELATIVISM

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it is the doctrine that all evaluative judgements and more specifically all moral judgements are nothing but expressions of preference, expressions of attitude or feeling, insofar as they are moral or evaluative in character.

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EMOTIVISM

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it holds that moral judgements are equivalent to statements about the psychological states or attitudes of those who utter them.

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SUBJECTIVISM

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The Situational approach is the only appropriate response to real ethical dilemmas.

It values individual freedom, puts people first and acknowledges the genuine diversity of circumstances

“Only one thing is intrinsically good; namely love: nothing else at all

Who is it? starts with J

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JOSEPH FLETCHER (Situation Ethics)

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The human being is a result of natural selection and evolutionary genetic mutation.

Man has progressed because of the survival of the fittest.
Therefore to support the weak and less able is to threaten the evolutionary process.

easily leads to racism - less favored races who have not evolved so successfully as others

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Social Darwinism

27
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Why did the Rich Young Man asked Jesus?

What did he saw in Jesus? 🤨

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Because he saw goodness and truth in Jesus

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What are the truths revealed to the Rich young man?

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  • It is not enough to follow the commandments externally.
  • It is not important to be attached to material things.
  • It is essential for us to be free from material possession to freely follow Jesus
29
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The return to our moral foundations in Scripture is the first step towards a more balanced, authentic catechesis of Christian moral life in family, school and parish

Jesus opens up the ___________.

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faithful to the Scriptures

30
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Greek name for the 10 Commandments
Jesus definitively confirms it and proposes them as the way and condition of salvation.

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Decalogue

31
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Jesus teaches us that God is the beginning and end of our life.

what tablet?

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“first tablet” of the Law

32
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The tablet that commands us: “you shall not murder; you shall not commit adultery; Honor your father and your mother;

These commandments are summarized by Jesus’ command to his disciples: “ You shall love your neighbor as yourself”

what tablet?

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“Second Tablet of the Law”

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Jesus brings God’s commandments to fulfillment… Jesus shows that the commandments must not be understood as a minimum limit not to be gone beyond, but rather as a path involving a _______ and _____ journey towards perfection

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moral; spiritual

34
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The ________ is precisely to commit ourselves through the power of Christ’s redeeming grace to the progressive overcoming of the evil of sin and around us

— a personal human reaching out in loving service to others
rather than simply avoiding sin or shrinking from evil

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Christian moral vocation

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The three-fold yeses covering the three dimensions of human life:

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intra-personal
inter-personal
societal

36
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must be grounded on the fourth foundational, integrating…

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Yes to God

37
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The only way we could possibly develop an integral saying “YES” to the fullness of human life is by our total committed __________, as a disciples of Christ

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“Yes” to God

38
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The Christ Jesus that we proclaimed among you… was never Yes and No. With him it was always_____.

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Yes.

39
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This demands a radical change of heart, a real conversion, manifested in a triple yes to ______, ______, and _____ and grounded in the ultimate yes to God, overcoming the “No” of sin

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  • yes to self
  • others
  • society
40
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To go to the heart of the Gospel’s moral teaching and grasp its profound and unchanging content, we must carefully inquire into:

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  • meaning of the question asked by the rich young man in the Gospel
  • meaning of Jesus’ reply, allowing ourselves to be guided by Him.
41
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Jesus as the patient and sensitive teacher answers the young man taking him by the hand, and _______

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leading him step by step to the full truth

42
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The first and ultimate vocation of man is ___________ and there is only one way to respond to his calling: Jesus Christ

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Communion with God

43
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The Father’s love is manifested pre-eminently in Jesus’ Paschal Mystery, and the Holy Spirit Sent into Our hearts who enables us to fulfill Christ’s own command: ________________

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love one another as I have loved you

44
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It is to the ______ that Christ entrusted the task of proclaiming the message of salvation to all people.

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Church

45
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To fulfill this task, Christ empowered the Church to proclaim, without _________, _________, _______ in the hope of leading people to the realization or actualization of the kingdom of God here on earth.

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  • fear of error
  • faith
  • morals
46
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In embracing this divine mandate, the Church bravely confronted the changes as well as the challenges that each generation brings, holding on to the promise that ________.

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Christ will be with his people until the end of time