The Human Person

Question 1

Who stated that a person is an individual substance of a rational nature?

Answer 1

Aquinas

Question 2

Who said that as long as there is life, there is soul?

Answer 2

Plato and Aristotle

Question 3

Who said that humanhood and personhood are synonymous, and ensoulment is inherent only to humans?

Answer 3

Sullivan

Question 4

What is the soul of plants and vegetables? (Aristotle)

Answer 4

Vegetative soul

Question 5

What is the soul of animals? (Aristotle)

Answer 5

Sensitive

Question 6

What is the soul of humans? (Aristotle)

Answer 6

Rational

Question 7

This soul is indivisible, simple, indestructible, and immaterial

Answer 7

Rational soul

Question 8

Who said that the marks of personhood are the ability to exhibit rationality, self-consciousness, awareness, sentience, autonomy, and relate to others?

Answer 8

Peter Singer

Question 9

John Polkinghorne

a person is a ________ being, able to use the ______ _____ in anticipation, hope and dread

Answer 9

self-conscious; future tense

Question 10

John Polkinghorne

able to perceive ________ and _______

Answer 10

meaning and value

Question 11

John Polkinghorne

able to respond to ________ and to the call of ________ __________

Answer 11

beauty; moral duty

Question 12

John Polkinghorne

able to love others, even to the point of ___________

Answer 12

self-sacrifice

Question 13

What are actions that proceed from the deliberate free will?

Answer 13

Human acts

Question 14

(Human acts)

Any action performed by man - ______, ________, _______, _______

Answer 14

physical, spiritual, internal, external

Question 15

(Human acts)

Actions that readily demand for the human person’s _________

Answer 15

rationality

Question 16

What are acts of perception (sensation)?

Answer 16

Acts of Man

Question 17

These acts occur without the control of the will and the consciousness of the human mind

Answer 17

Acts of Man

Question 18

(Acts of Man)

Does not make humans ________ for their actions

Answer 18

responsible

Question 19

(Acts of Man)

Humans are responsible only for their actions if they perform the act through _____

Answer 19

will

Question 20

(Three elements of HA)

Knowledge makes the act _________

Answer 20

deliberate

Question 21

(Three elements of HA)

__________ proves that the person has the __________ about the means to employ in performing the act and the end to achieve in his __________

Answer 21

Knowledge; awareness; act

Question 22

(Three elements of HA)

Man does an act under the control of his will

Answer 22

Freedom

Question 23

(Three elements of HA)

Man is not ________ to do or not do a particular action

Answer 23

forced

Question 24

(Three elements of HA)

Requires the presence of the other two elements

Answer 24

Voluntariness

Question 25

(Three elements of HA) Voluntary act is a ______ _____

Answer 25

Human act

Question 26

(Three elements of HA) Voluntary act is a _______ ____ - involved knowledge and freedom

Answer 26

willful act

Question 27

What are the three elements of Human Acts?

Answer 27

1. Knowledge 2. Freedom 3. Voluntariness

Question 28

(Kinds of Conscience) draws judgment before an action is permitted

Answer 28

Antecedent

Question 29

(Kinds of Conscience) judges an act after it is executed

Answer 29

Consequent

Question 30

(Kinds of Conscience) judges things truly as they are from the authentic principles of ethics

Answer 30

True

Question 31

(Kinds of Conscience) considers bad acts as god and good acts as bad; views things in a distorted view

Answer 31

Erroneous

Question 32

(Two kinds of Erroneous Conscience) 1. Invincible/inculpable

Answer 32

not liable of the act; not aware of the wrong act

Question 33

(Two kinds of Erroneous Conscience) 2. Vincible/culpable

Answer 33

has full knowledge of the act; liable

Question 34

(Kinds of Conscience) subjective certainty of the legality of an action to be executed or not

Answer 34

Certain

Question 35

(Kinds of Conscience) man is not sure about a moral judgment

Answer 35

Doubtful

Question 36

(Kinds of Conscience) sees wrong where there is actually none

Answer 36

Scrupulous