Midterm Flashcards
Will to power
Truth and freedom are based on ones ability to impose their will
Ultimately hinders freedom
Nietzsche
Will to power
Christ is tempted
4:1-11
Prologue of johns gospel
Logos (word) becomes flesh, aka incarnation
Hidden years
12-30
Luke temple
Public ministry
Christ developed through
Grace: relationship with father (abba)
Nature: family , own experience , education
Jesus is in Hypostatic union
Fully god, fully human
Matthew 5-7
Sermon on the mount / moral discourses
Moral discourses
Turn the other cheek (revenge)
Our father: describes perfect prayer and personal god
Beatitudes: describe internal transformation with being rather than doing
Matthew 5:48
Perfection
The commandments
Meant to safeguard the good of a person and the image of god by protecting his goods
Virtues
Heathy good habits that help us do good and empower us to be who god wants us to be
Theological
Faith
Hope
Love
Cardinal
Temperance
Prudence
Fortitude
Justice
Theological virtues
Infused by god into our souls, enable us to live in relationship with blessed trinity
Christian notion
Good
Happy
Saved us
Plan
Refutations are….
Freud said: product of our need to find our origins and cope with death
(Religion was made to restrain man from violent impulses)
Evil (deprivation and distortion in Christian notion)
Pain ( tragedy on vulnerable)
Nominalism
Developed by William Okcham for sake of protecting gods divinity which denies existence of universal essences
Nominalism leads to
Moral relativism: reduces truth to a limit but as same value
Science and reason
Angel out faith and anything metaphysical
Descartes
Truth has to be clear and distinct
Morality becomes
Deontological: what should I do (rule based)
Who supported deontological and what code embodies it
Kant and Ten Commandments
Ontological ethics
Who should I be
What takes primary place in cardinal virtues
Prudence
Intellectual virtue
Transcends caution
Prudence is what and geared towards
Saying the correct thing effectively and geared towards the good
Jesus says what two things in NT
Man shall leave his mother and father and cling to his wife and the two shall be one flesh
Adultery of mind
St. Paul in Corinth
Temple of Aphrodite: fertility cults
Greco roman rituals: orgies
Condemned homosexual acts
At Augustine
Rigid view on sexuality which stemmed from promiscuous lifestyle prior to conversion
Aquinas
Theology that focused on end and purpose
Sexuality is for procreation
John Paul the second
Influenced by philosophy of personalism: every person is a gift
Book: love and responsibility he critiques selfish nature of sex
Man should wait for partner to orgasm so that both experience equal pleasure