making moral decisions Flashcards
Decision making process that attends to the implications and consequences of an action or choice
Discernment
The moral virtue that inclines us to lead good, ethical, and moral lives of action; right reason in action”
Prudence
The moral content of an action that suggests whether the action is directs toward the true good
Moral object
Your acts must promote the ______ or they are wrong
True good
Make sure your actions always conform to objective norms of morality like the ______
Ten Commandments
The aim or objective of a course of action; why?
Intention
A ethos, course of action, or interment by which something can be accomplished
Means
The conditions or facts attending an event and having some bearing on it. Can increase or des crease the moral goodness or evil of an action
Circumstances
Who we really are and who we are becoming through our choices and actions
“Character is who we are in the dark”
Character
