Unit 1 Religion Test Flashcards

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teleological thinking

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seeking to understand the ultimate goal, purpose, or end to something

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teleological

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having to do w the design/purpose of something
- a house is made to live in
- what of the end to which human beings aspire?

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empiricism

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knowledge comes from experience, or form of evidence that can be perceived by the senses

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subjective

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persons own perception and understanding, arising from own mind, feelings, experiences, perceptions

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aristotle is what kind of ethics

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teleological ethics

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objective

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independent of individual thought, not influenced based on personal experiences (based on hard, factual, universal evidence)

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immanuel kant

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  • his theory of Practical Reason says that humans act not only on impulse, but also out of conscience choice based on principles
  • looking towards what we ought to do
  • more focused on the individual and personal good will as duty
  • what we ought to do do, what we shall do, not what we want to do
  • ethical principles could be applied to everyone as a universal law
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difference between ethics and morality

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  • morals are more like internally choosing to attain good and following laws as we feel duty or obligation
  • ethics guides morality, it’s like a standard of good and bad, identifying what is right or wrong
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aristotle

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  • student of plato
  • teacher to alexander the great
  • less concerned about individual person and more concerned about the community
  • happiness is the condition of a person who succeeds in living/acting well
  • aims toward what we are intended to be, our ultimate goal
  • must be moderate in all things
  • we develop our character
  • our mind must control our desires
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emmanuel levinas

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  • believed central question is where is the good
  • each thing or person is a unique expression of God
  • its good to be different
  • the good is related to what makes us different from one another
  • all things and people carry a trace of of the infinite God within them
  • the face of another calls us to respond, especially the eyes (assist/help them)
  • goodness translates to a personality responsibility for the other
  • true goodness knows no limits
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11
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what kind of ethics is kant

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deontological ethics

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12
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Personal Response (ethical experience)

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The Scream
-an appeal, a call for help
- almost automatic
- immediate inner tension to respond

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13
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what are the 4 ethical experiences

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1 - personal response (the scream)
2 - responsibility for the other (the beggar)
3 - duty (I have to)
4 - contrast (this is not fair)

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Responsibility for the Other - The Beggar
(ethical experience)

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  • affected by the needs of others and cant accept position of neutrality
  • emmanuel levinas
  • the human face of someone in need
  • face to face experience
  • in levinas’ language the others face holds you hostage and makes you responsible
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Duty - I have to… The Experience of Obligation
(ethical experience)

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  • urged to act responsibly from what you’ve been taught and by rules of your community
  • feeling obligated to obey a rule has everything to do with your ethical side
  • invades your consciousness and demands a response
  • Kant worked out ethical theory for this experience of duty
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Contrast - The Experience of Contrast - This is not fair
(ethical experience)

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  • faced with cruelty
  • produces psychological shock and disgust
  • you have built in capacity for knowing what the world ought to look like
  • when confronted with violence you naturally recoil from it
  • shocked because the terrible events contrast with with what you expect from fellow humans
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17
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agent

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one who acts, who has the capacity to initiate a course of events

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18
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mitigate

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make less severe

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19
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predestination

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the view that my behaviour is predetermined, whether by God or by other causes

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20
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aggravate

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make worse

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21
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conceptual framework of action

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agent, intention, motivation, action, circumstances, outcome

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22
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MOTIVATION - conceptual framework of action

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  • reason for action
  • you don’t always make good judgment
  • you justify your action, appealing to a value that makes it right
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23
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AGENT - conceptual framework of action

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person who makes things happen
- free choice

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INTENTION - conceptual framework of action

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  • end in view or desired result
  • what commitments are made?
  • your actions shape you good or bad
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CIRCUMSTANCES - conceptual framework of action

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  • under what circumstances?
  • what factors is the agent juggling
  • the circumstances affect how much the action is yours
  • may increase or decrease your responsibility
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OUTCOME - conceptual framework of action

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  • who is responsible for the positive or negative
  • outcome of action intended or not affects the self for good or bad
  • ex you drunk drive and crash
27
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what are the 3 arguments against human freedom

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naturalism, religious determinism, social determinism

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ACTION - conceptual framework of action

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  • how is the action done
  • is harm done so that good can be accomplished
  • how you carry it out says something about you
  • mitigate or aggravate
29
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naturalism

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  • first coined by G.E Moore
  • roots back to David Hume
  • understands the material universe as a unified system
  • everything is shaped by physical, biological, psychological, social, and environmental processes
  • humans are no more than part of the material universe
  • everything must be explained by scientific experimentation
  • your promises/commitments dont come from motives or intentions, they come from genetic predisposition
  • freedom is a delusion
  • feelings/attachment are neutral
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Religious Determinism

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  • freedom is an illusion bc actions arent free
  • actions are nothing more than the result of brain processes
  • predestination
  • God has predetermined the course of the world and individual’s actions
  • catholic tradition has struggled to believe in human freedom because of God’s providence
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Social Determinism

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  • behaviour influenced by others upon you
  • parents, culture, mental state
  • any traumatic experiences you have had
  • actions can be explained by what you have gone through at the hands of others therefore not free
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autonomy

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free self direction; responsibility

33
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moral stance

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moral directions, what you stand for

34
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character

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the way your actions overtime tend to become fixed in your body

35
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narcissism

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disorder marked by self absorption to the exclusion of others

36
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trinity

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central mystery of the christian faith and of christian life
- god makes it known to us by revealing himself as the father, the son, and the holy spirit

37
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6 aspects of human person

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importance of others, importance of having direction in life, importance of communication and language, importance of character and one’s body, importance of conscience,
development of one’s conscience

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importance of others
(aspect of human person)

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  • healthy balance between love for oneself and others
  • are you responsible for your siblings/why should you care for them
  • we need one another to survive
  • can you be free and unique while bearing responsibility for others
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importance of having direction in life
(aspect of human person)

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  • being committed to particular values
  • knowing where you stand with great issues in life
  • identity lies in moral values
  • critical that you stand for something
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importance of communication & language
(aspect of human person)

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  • part of a community that shares a common language
  • what you value and aspire to be was first made known to you by others
  • living in a culture and adopting communication styles shapes your identity
  • common language empowers us symbolically
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the importance of character and one’s body
(aspect of human person)

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  • you do things with your body
  • through your body all human traits become possible
  • we express our traits and qualities through the human body
  • moral and ethical decision shape who we are
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importance of conscience
(aspect of human person)

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  • law written in human hearts
  • should not confuse conscience with superego
  • when we do things because we feel like we have to thats the superego
    -when we do things because we want to thats our conscience
  • does not lay feelings of guilt upon us
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development of one’s conscience
(aspect of human person)

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  • as you mature
  • follow values and virtues of christian life
  • one’s conscience can be malformed through immoral acts, faulty reasoning, faulty value, and misinformation from others
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symptoms of malformed conscience

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  • rationalization
  • trivialization (its no big deal)
  • misinformation
  • the end justifies the means (i had no choice or else)
  • means to an end (itll be better in the long run)
  • difficult to reason (i should have thought abt it first maybe there was another way)
45
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3 senses of conscience

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1 - as the ability to recognize right from wrong (general awareness is what makes us human)
2 - as an active process of moral reasoning (learning the facts and what moral values are informing ourselves from reliable sources)
3 - as a judgment (making a final decision and committing to do whats right)

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how to build character

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  • repeat actions you create habits
  • choices you make day after day are a product of what you believe in
  • others will identify you as kind, helpful, stubborn etc.
  • we develop good habits called virtues and bad habits called vices
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well formed conscience

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formed by using scripture, community, church
- entails recognizing one’s guilt from past wrongdoings and what has been taught by it

48
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wrongly formed conscience

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formed on mistaken info
- fauls rumours, misinformation

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lax conscience

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  • not being concerned whether the action is right or wrong or is impacting negatively
50
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legalistic conscience

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obeying rules perfectly, following law rather than spirit of law
- ex you go to school when youre sick

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warranted guilt

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when we know an act is wrong but we do it anyway and recognize what we did was wrong

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unwarranted guilt

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no real justifiable reason to feel guilty
occurs when you have wrongly formed conscience

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too little guilt

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becoming accustomed to sin and therefore feeling immune to wrongdoing
occurs when you have lax conscience

54
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excessive guilt

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guilt out of proportion to the severity of the wrongdoing
occurs when legalistic conscience

55
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character cycle

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choices conscience actions
habits
good bad virtues vices
character