Unit 1 Chapter 2

Question 1

Define action

Answer 1

The realization of the power of human freedom, when we act we change the world around us

Question 2

Define agent

Answer 2

A person who has the ability to act freely and perform actions while knowing the consequences

Question 3

What is the Conceptual Framework of Action?

Answer 3

An action theory that consists of 7 questions which helps us understand our actions

Question 4

What is determinism?

Answer 4

A theory that every event is determined by preceding events

Question 5

What is free will?

Answer 5

The ability humans have to perform actions based on their personal choice

Question 6

What is freedom?

Answer 6

The capacity to make choices and act or not to act

Question 7

Define intention

Answer 7

Something that is done with an end goal

Question 8

What are logical positivits?

Answer 8

Someone who believes that anything that occurs has a sensory experience to back it up

Question 9

Define motive

Answer 9

The reasoning behind an action or doing something

Question 9

What is analytic philosophy?

Answer 9

The philosophical belief that everything can be reduced to a sensory experience (smell, taste, touch, etc)

Question 10

What is predestination?

Answer 10

The belief that everything is predetermined by God or other reasons

Question 11

What is providence?

Answer 11

God’s influence on actions and events

Question 11

What is a mitigating circumstance?

Answer 11

Circumstances that make the situation deescalate

Question 12

What is an aggravating circumstance?

Answer 12

Circumstances that make the situation escalate

Question 13

What theory did Ludwig Wittgenstein create?

Answer 13

The theory of action

Question 14

What did Sigmund Freud discover?

Answer 14

Psychoanalysis psychotherapy (the study and theory of how the mind works)

Question 14

What did Paul Ricoeur do?

Answer 14

Composed the action theory (Conceptual Framework of Action), which is composed of 7 questions

Question 15

What does the Canadian Charter of Rights outline?

Answer 15

The rights and freedoms that we Canadians deem necessary to be in a free and democratic society

Question 16

What are the Seven Questions for the Conceptual Framework of Action?

Answer 16

1. Who?
2. What?
3. Why?
4. How?
5. Under what circumstances?
6. With or against whom?
7. End goal/intention?

Question 17

What 3 factors does the morality of a human act on?

Answer 17

1. The action chosen
2. The intention
3. The circumstance

Question 18

What are the 3 forms of determinism?

Answer 18

1. Naturalism
2. Religious determinism
3. Social determinsm

Question 19

What is naturalism?

Answer 19

• The belief that everything is shaped by our physical, environmental, and biological processes
• Natural selection (our genetics determine and justify our actions)

Question 20

What is religious determinism?

Answer 20

The belief that everything is already predetermined, leaving humans with no free will

Question 21

What is social determinism?

Answer 21

The belief that the people we surround ourselves with influence our behaviour and actions

Question 22

How does the Catholic faith belief in free will conflict with determinism?

Answer 22

• Catholics believe in free will, while the theory of determinism does not
  
  • Ex: Adam and Eve making their
    own decision to eat from the
    Garden of Eden
• Determinism believes that everything is predetermined

Question 23

What do Catholics support?

Answer 23

Providence and God-given free will