UNIT 1 Flashcards
Though one of the imperative of ethics is to hold that there is an objective truth,
subjectivism is still tolerated.
False
2) Immanuel Kant holds that though you believe that you are an ethical being, it does
not mean that it is imperative for you to be ethical because one’s belief can be
dichomized from praxis.
False
David Hume holds that every person have a reason for their belief or disbelief.
True
David Hume implies nobody has the right to critic a person’s beliefs or people’s
creeds in as much as it fosters conversion and transformation.
False
Ludwig Feuerbach holds that sociology and not theology is a real science because
everything we believe about the divine is just a prognosis of our concerns and
prejudices.
True
Freedom of choice is an essential requirement to human dignity.
True
7) The Catholic Social Teachings refers to the completely developed body of teachings
on social, economic, political, and cultural matters.
False
The object of the Catholic Social Teachings is just to encourage the catholics to
critically reflect on the existing social structures not to the extent of proceeding to a
collective action.
False
9) The Word of God is dynamic only when it refers to the same situation or context
stated from the naratives of the Bible.
False
All the books of the Bible contain lessons concerning our social mission as
disciples of Jesus.
True
Hermann Cohen along with his Contemporary Philosophers atempt to deffine or
know the human person by setting categories and looking for properties that makes a
human being.
False
Aristotle and Saint Thomas Aquinas, along with the medieval philosophers define
the Human Person by applying a subjective and existential approach in doing so.
False
13) “Agere Sequitur Esse” means “To be Human is to be Ethical”.
False
The opposite of Love is indifference.
True
The demand of charity is obviously higher than the demands of justice because
charity is nobler than justice..
False
16) Ludwig Feuerbach asserts the pointlessness of referring to the divine just to be
ethical because according to him, our concept of the divine along with his attributes
are just product of our anthropomorphism.
True
17) According to Ludwig Feuerbach, though man is just an insignificant speck of
reality in this immensely vast universe, he can still find his significance through his
connection to the Transcendent One.
False
According to Blaise Pascal, to define man objectively is to find his place in this
vast and infinite universe, which consequently becomes fearsome for one would
discover one’s insignificance.
True
According to Martin Buber, the best way to answer the question “who is the
Human Person is thru logistic statistics or setting parameters for description.
False
According to Martin Buber, when we try to define who is the human being, we
will come up with an objective definition which consequently leads to considering the
other as the Thou.
False
In the scala naturae, the human being is placed at the center implying that he both
belongs to the material world and to the spiritual world.
True
22) During the Age of Reason (Renaissance), the only sin one would ever commit is
indifference.
False
The Age of Reason wa triggered by the crisis or collapse despite the abindance of
knoweldge
False
Durignt he Age of Reason, everybody’s concern was to gain more knowledge for
having more knowledge for they believe that it ensures a better, more productive and
a more peaceful life.
True
25) The irony after the Age of Reason is that the collapse that occurred after that
period was intitated by the enlightened ones, those who relished the abundance of
knowledge through productivity, technological advancement and thorough familiarity
with values and ethics.
True
26) The Catholic Social Teachings is an expression of the Church’s ministry of
Teaching.
True
Catholic Social Teachings refers to the set of principles designed to help guide us
in applying the liberating message of the gospel to the social, economic and political
problems facing modern humanity.
True
The Christian realization of our social and relational nature as human beings is
seeing ourselves as our brothers’ and sisters’ keeper.
True
The eminent illness of our society today is indifference, or suffering from
existential and interpersonal difficulties where people no longer take responsibility
for their neighbors.
True
Anthropological basis of the Catholic Social Teachings denies the interrelatedness
and interconnectedness of all human beings, indicating that our lives is simply our
responsibility.
False
Pacem in Terris was released by the Church as her response to the excesses of
industrial revolution and liberal capitalism which led to communism manifesto.
False
During the Cold War between US and Russia, the church was caught between the
tragedy of the sins of capitalism and proposed solution of socialism.
False
Human actions constitute a plurality of isolated, disconnected good or sinful
deeds, which can be sufficiently understood and judged each by itself.
False
Fundamental option usually have their roots in basic decisions which give
purpose and determination to the whole of man’s life.
True
35) In agreement with the idea of Fundamental Option, the question we need to ask is
not so much “what wrong things have I done and how often?” Rather we should be
asking ourselves “how do the wrong things I have done indicate my general
orientation to God, my love for God, my love for my neighbor?
False
36) Human dignity’s inviolability and inalienability are acquired through Baptism.
False
37) St Leo and St Thomas Aquinas agree that the human person possesses dignity by
virtue of being created in the image and likeness of God.
True
38) The state recognizes the value of every human person and therefore implements
laws based primarily on social status, race, and gender.
False
The promotion of human rights remains the only effective strategy for eliminating
inequalities between countries and social groups, and for increasing security.
False
Rerum Novarum presents a relatively complete and systematic catalogue of
human rights, comparable to those in contemporary declarations of human rights
promulgated by national or international entities.
False
As Human Persons, our body just an accessory of our being for it bounds
and subjects us to the material world, the seat of weakness and sin.
False
Man is an organic unity, as he possesses a body which is a composite of
different parts, and is the unifying principle, which determines and identifies
a human person.
False
43) In man, when the rational soul disappears, the other parts which are
animated by a sensitive and vegetative soul can still function according to
their nature, that only the rational function disappears.
False
44) Human persons possess self-awareness through their knowing and willing
faculties through which he understands the order of things and recognizes the basic
ethical demands.
True
Being the masterpiece of creation, man is capable of self-knowledge and can
freely give themselves and enter into communion with others.
True
In Christ and through Christ, we have acquired full awareness of our dignity
which reminded of our fragility, vulnerability and weakness as humans.
False
According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the dignity of the human
person is rooted in his being created in the image and likeness of God.
False
From the principle of the Social Catholic teachings, the church believes that her
concern for the porr, the weak and the powerless strengthens the society.
True
49) For Freidrich Nietsche, the ethics of the catholic church or the christian ethics is
noble and admirable for its conern for the lost, the least and last since the role of the
human being is to give way to each other and not to compete and take control of
oneself.
False
It is imperatice for ethics to pose an objective standard which implies the factual
distinction between good and evil.
True
Rights theory in the social tradition does not involve the importance of the social
nature of the person and role that context plays in the promotion and guarantee of
rights.
False
Article 1 of the United Nations Declaration/Charter of Rights indicated that
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
False
53) Cicero redefined dignitas referring to all humans by making distinction against
animals where the former are governed by reason by virtue of being images and
likeness of God while the latter are governed by bodily pleasures and instinct.
False
The stipulations of a constitution functions as the source of identity of the people
and this identity once obtained, could not be taken away from the person.
False
Rights are inviolable and inalienable.
False
The human person, as part of the spiritual world, he is bounded by the Laws of
nature.
False
You cannot love what/who you don’t know.
True
To choose the good is the fulfillment of freedom much like choosing what is evil.
False
59) Man is for work, not work for man.
false
Man’s natural yearning for the divine is simply a response to God’s initial
revelation.
True
The differences between male and female are destructive because they are
naturally geared towards selfishness and autonomy.
False
The right to private property is an absolute right.
False
63) Stewardship implies that we must both care for creation according to standards
that are not of our own making even to the point of entirely compromising
resourcefulness in finding ways to make the earth flourish.
False
Stewardship implies the difficult balance between requiring both the sense of
limits and a spirit of experiemtnation.
true
The earth, God’s first gift for the sustenance of human life could not yeild fruits
without particular human response to God’s gift, that is to say, working.
True
The Church recognizes and does not neglect a number of men and women who
have deep-seated homosexual tendencies and holds that any sign of unjust
discrimination in their regard is condemnable.
True
Homosexual persons are called to chastity by the virtues of self-mastery, with the
support of disinterested friendship and by prayer and sacramental grace.
True
Irreconcilable differences can be a useful ground for the nullity of marriage.
False
The different traits among men and women are complementary, and so, is
necessary for the stability of relationship.
True
We believe every person are imbued with both male and female hormones, then
we can alter whatever nature has provided us with.
false
Difference in status and skills is needed for the right ordering and stability of the society. a. Personal b. Necessary c. Self Development d. Shaping and Mastering the Earth e. Social and Service
e. Social and Service
One cannot get rid of temptation through inaction, but by finding a deviation or alternative. a. Personal b. Necessary c. Self Development d. Shaping and Mastering the Earth e. Social and Service
c. Self Development
No to throw-away culture and Yes to respecting Biodiversity.
a. Personal
b. Necessary
c. Self Development
d. Shaping and Mastering the Earth
e. Social and Service
d. Shaping and Mastering the Earth
74) Work is the extension of the person of the worker.
a. Personal
b. Necessary
c. Self Development
d. Shaping and Mastering the Earth
e. Social and Service
a. Personal*
Work unites men in a common effort intended for the perfection of one and all to the glory of the Creator and Redeemer which implies that work closely unite men together. a. Personal b. Necessary c. Self Development d. Shaping and Mastering the Earth e. Social and Service
e. Social and Service
Work has dignity which is based on the dignity of the worker and not on the quality of the result/output. a. Personal b. Necessary c. Self Development d. Shaping and Mastering the Earth e. Social and Service
a. Personal
A worker deserves to rest and enjoy the fruits of his labor.
a. Personal
b. Necessary
c. Self Development
d. Shaping and Mastering the Earth
e. Social and Service
b. Necessary
Awake our sense of awe and wonder.
a. We shouldn’t lose our connection with nature
b. Create more favorable condition to let creation thrive
c. Universal destination of goods
d. There are natural cure in nature for all diseases
b. Create more favorable condition to let creation thrive
Preservation of nature’s diversity
a. Give off what is excessive is the demand of Justice
b. An inherent order in nature must be respected
c. Maintain nature’s cleanliness and confront abusers
d. Whatever is excessive in you is no longer yours
b. An inherent order in nature must be respected
CST is the Church’s best kept secret.
a. They are renowned and popular among the Catholics all over the world.
b. It can turn the society upside down when they are fully implemented.
c. Its message can be easily understood despite ignorance of its foundation.
d. Its documents are expressed in extremely scholarly language.
d. Its documents are expressed in extremely scholarly language.
81) CST is the Church’s best kept secret.
a. Generally, the response of the people on the Church’s intervention and
involvement in the political and economic issues is always very positive.
b. The topics always deal with controversial issues that are often disturbing to
the readers.
c. Scandals within the church never undermined the Church’s moral authority.
d. The church was never accused of acting outside of her acceptable
boundaries when she deals with social and secular crisis or issues.
b. The topics always deal with controversial issues that are often disturbing to
the readers.
CST is the Church’s best kept secret.
a. Among the Catholics especially the leaders of the church, there was never a
dichotomy but a wonderful marriage or synthesis between theory and practice,
intellectual pursuit and apostolic commitment.
b. To say that a lot of people are resorting to abortion nowadays is
overstatement.
c. Authoritative statements regardless of its application and non-application to
actual life are always attractive and persuasive.
d. Papal encyclical are always presumed and reputed as countenance of the
church’s dissent over birth control.
d. Papal encyclical are always presumed and reputed as countenance of the
church’s dissent over birth control
Justice does not entail
a. Meeting the immediate needs of persons and treat the symptoms of social
problems.
b. Challenging the social structures that attack human dignity.
c. Changing the social structures that oppress people and contribute to
poverty.
d. Focusing on rights of people, address underlying social causes and works for
long term social change.
a. Meeting the immediate needs of persons and treat the symptoms of social
problems.
The sum total of all those conditions of social living whereby men are enabled
more fully and more readily to achieve their own perfection
a. Common Wealth b. Common Good c. Social Good
d. Social Security
b. Common Good
The basis and principle of all relations in the society as well as of ethics and
morality.
a. Justice b. Charity c. Rights d. Dignity
d. Dignity
This period in history saw the rise of factories and the creation of a new working
class.
a. Dark Ages b. Technological Revolution c. Industrial Revolution d. Middle Ages
c. Industrial Revolution
87) It refers to realities which point us to where our society is heading.
a. Signs of the Times b. Current Events c. Social Theories d. News Program
a. Signs of the Times
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
a. Scandal b. Commission c. Omission d. Prejudice
c. Omission
Religion is just an outward projection of our internal nature.
a. Soren Kierkegaard b. Immanuel Kant c. Ludwig Feuerbach d. Martin Heiddeger
Ludwig Feuerbach
Faith is a leap into the dark or stepping into the unknown.
a. Soren Kierkegaard
b. Immanuel Kant c. Ludwig Feuerbach d. Martin Buber
a. Soren Kierkegaard
A person is not an isolated monad
a. Pope Francis b. Saint Thomas Aquinas c. Saint Augustine d. Saint John Paul II
b. Saint Thomas Aquinas
Friedrich Nietzche
a. Christian Ethics b. Human Person’s goal is to win and dominate
c. Being is not about survival d. Man is incapable of making promises
b. Human Person’s goal is to win and dominate
Categorical Imperatives
a. Soren Kierkegaard b. Immanuel Kant c. David Hume d. Hermann Cohen
b. Immanuel Kant
Love for Family
a. Storge b. Agape c. Eros d. Filial
a. Storge
I-Thou
a. Immanuel Kant b. David Hume c. Martin Buber d. Soren Kierkegaard
c. Martin Buber
a. Biblical Insights b. Traditions (Fathers and Doctors of the Church)
c. Contemporary experience of people
d. Political and Economic Theories
d. Political and Economic Theories
a. Socio-anthropology
b. Scriptures
c. Sacraments
d. Social Mission
a. Socio-anthropology
a. John XXIII
b. Pacem in Terris c. Universal Declaration of Rights
d. Socialism
d. Socialism
a. Rerum Novarum b. Leo XIII
c. Cold War
d. Industrial Revolution
Cold War
a. Capitalism b. Socialism c. Mass production d. Standardization
b. Socialism *
a. Proletariat b. Private Property c. Classless Society d. Socialism
b. Private Property
a. Doctrine b. Social Mission c. Liturgy d. Fundamental Option
d. Fundamental Option
a. Saint Thomas Aquinas b. Immanuel Kant c. David Hume d. Plato
a. Saint Thomas Aquinas
a. Albert Camu b. Aristotle c. Ludwig Feuerbach d. Jacques Derrida
b. Aristotle
a. Properties b. Categories c. Substance and Accident d. Existence
d. Existence
a. Knowledge b. Rationality c. Ignorance d. Renaissance
ignorance
a. I-Thou b. Object c. Define d. It
a. I-Thou
a. Collapse b. Scientific Progress c. Knowledge d. Productivity
a. Collapse
a. Martin Buber b. Martin Heiddeger c. Ludwig Feuerbach d. Hermann Cohen
c. Ludwig Feuerbach
a. Transcendent One b. Infinite Universe
c. Granular Space-Time Theory d. Categories and Properties
d. Categories and Properties
a. Truth b. Freedom c. Transformation d. Justice
d. Justice
a. Person b. Synderesis c. Freedom d. Substitutable
d. Substitutable
a. Synderesis b. Obediential Potency c. Virtues d. Stewardship
Virtues
a. Body b. Matter c. Soul d. Laws of Nature
c. Soul
a. Corporeal b. Soul c. Intellect d. Freewill
a. Corporeal
a. Awe and Wonder b. Reuse and no to ‘throw away culture”
c. Preserve nature’s diversity d. Industrialization and Globalization
d. Industrialization and Globalization
a. Inferiority b. Complementarity c. Equity d. Solidarity
a. Inferiority
a. Human Dignity b. Inalienable c. Inviolable d. Human Rights
d. Human Rights
a. Pacem in Terris b. John XXIII c. Mater et Magistra d. Cold War
c. Mater et Magistra
a. Imago Dei b. Cicero c. St. Leo the Great d. St. Thomas Aquinas
b. Cicero
