Creatively Titled Column 1
Fairy tale is to Happily Ever After as Human life is to...
What is Ultimate End/happiness/beatific vision?
The eternal law as it applies to and exists in humans
What is natural law?
The word "conscience" comes from con and scientia, and means
What is "knowing with"?
The first and most fundamental principle of the natural law
What is "Do good, avoid evil"?
This form of ignorance means that you could and should have known better
What is vincible ignorance?
This analogy illustrates the distinction between authentic freedom and "freedom of indifference"
What is the map/minefield analogy?
______ limit rights
When you know know something and yet tell yourself you don't know it
What is denial?
The reasoning process used by the conscience to reach a "do this"/"don't do this" conclusion
What is a syllogism?
When you have no doubt about your conscience's judgment, you have a ____ conscience
What is a certain conscience?
An analogy (based on a historical reality) for how culture can twist our perception of human nature, truth, and goodness
What is foot-binding?
For human persons, __________ are always accompanied by duties
What are rights?
When someone makes excuses for doing what he knows is wrong
What is rationalization?
The goal of the speculative intellect is right thought; the goal of the practical intellect is
When your conscience makes a true judgment of how a possible act relates to the moral law, you have a ____ conscience
What is a correct conscience?
What is because conscience is interior to the individual / not an external or independent reality?
The moral law, published by your nature
What is natural law?
The work of conscience is to apply this to a particular act
What is moral law?
Conscience is an act of the ________ intellect
What is the practical intellect?
When you are unsure whether your conscience's judgment about an act is right or reasonable, you have a ______ conscience
What is a doubtful conscience?
An analogy for how a culture can lose its moral ground, making it harder for people to grow and flourish
What is soil erosion?
Whereas love/charity regards gifts, this virtue regards duties
What is justice?
Advise, refute, testify, judge: Of these four options, this is not one of the three functions of conscience
What is "refute"?
These are the points in time when the conscience can "speak"
What are before, during, and after an action?
When your conscience judges that an act is good, but it is really evil, your conscience is an _________ conscience
What is an erroneous conscience?