Test 1

Question 1

What is Happiness?

Answer 1

The ultimate end/purpose of human existence.

Question 2

What is Telos

Answer 2

The end/goal

Question 3

What is Eudaimonia?

Answer 3

Man’s ultimate happiness

Question 4

What is Reason?

Answer 4

Using logic. Leads you to happiness

Question 5

What is Ethos?

Answer 5

Character. How one acts to achieve Telos

Question 6

What is Good?

Answer 6

Something virtuous to be desired/sought after

Question 7

What is Truth?

Answer 7

Something objective. Declaring what is.

Question 8

Faith (theological virtue)

Answer 8

Belief in God as creator. If we believe in god we commit ourselves.

Question 9

Hope (theological virtue)

Answer 9

The desire for the kingdom of heaven. If we have faith, hope naturally follows; if there is a god, there must be a heaven

Question 10

Love (Theological virtue)

Answer 10

Love is charity, charity is love. Love of God for his own sake, and love of neighbor and ourselves for the sake of Gods love.

Question 11

What is love?

Answer 11

Willing the good of another

Question 12

Prudence (cardinal virtue)

Answer 12

Prudence is right reason in action; discerning the true good among alternatives.

Question 13

Justice (cardinal virtue)

Answer 13

Giving due to God and neighbor. Respect for God as creator and respect for neighbor because of human dignity.

Question 14

Fortitude (cardinal virtue)

Answer 14

Persistence and pursuit of the good during hardship. Not courage, but how you use courage to live a more moral life.

Question 15

Temperance (cardinal virtue)

Answer 15

Moderation in the attractions of pleasures; ex: we should eat to survive, not because we can.

Question 16

What is Virtue?

Answer 16

Having a purposeful disposition. Lying in the mean and using right reason. Not extremes.

Question 17

Pride is…

Answer 17

The beginning of every sin. The cornerstone of all things immoral

Question 18

It is characteristic of pride…

Answer 18

To be unwilling to be subject to any other, especially God.

Question 19

If something is self-seeking…

Answer 19

It becomes prideful

Question 20

Pride leads to…

Answer 20

The seven capital sins (the other six capital sins)

Question 21

What is Vainglory?

Answer 21

Seeking glory for vain (empty) reasons.

Question 22

What does man truly desire, how does pride relate to it?

Answer 22

What man truly desires is excellence, pride is telling yourself you have already achieved it.

Question 23

The glory we seek is vain if…

Answer 23

We seek glory for the wrong things, from the wrong people, or for the wrong reasons

Question 24

What kind of commitment does pride have with excellence?

Answer 24

Pride (Vainglory) expresses an imperfect commitment to to excellence, and therefore an imperfect connection to God.

Question 25

Me First

Answer 25

An individuals desire to make his own excellence known by showing he is not inferior to another

Question 26

Boastfulness (Vainglory article)

Answer 26

Bragging, unwillingness to change.

Humility and honesty go hand in hand, we must recognize our limits and acknowledge God as the source of our excellence.

Question 27

Contentiousness (Vainglory article)

Answer 27

Refusal to make peace.

A missuse of our gift of speech, contention demonstrates an unwillingness to Make peace, no opinion is better than my own

Question 28

Obstinacy (Vainglory article)

Answer 28

The obstinate individual cannot be swayed. Obstinacy perverts intellect

Nothing is better than my plan/idea. A misuse of intellect.

Question 29

Discord (Vainglory article)

Answer 29

The stubborn refusal to surrender to another, even, and especially, if we are wrong. Discord perverts will.

Question 30

Disobedience (Vainglory article)

Answer 30

Nothing more than a personal conviction that my way is the only way to proceed.

You must serve God and community, society starts at the domestic level.