Unit 1
This is the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge and reality.
Philosophy
These are the four Cardinal Virtues.
Prudence, Justice, Courage and Temperance.
This part of our existence enables us to spend eternity with or separated from God.
The Immortal Soul
This is a moral code that prescribes what ought to be done.
Positive Morality
This is a day of celebration/commemoration within the Church. Typically it is honor of a Saint or a significant event in Salvation history.
Feast Day
This process of the mind is an Inference that begins with “facts” and ends with an observation.
Deduction
This is one who accepted/accepts Jesus’ message to follow Him, especially one of the twelve.
Disciple
These are some of the ways in which our actions express/show our moral disposition.
Show our values
If we value virtue we will strive to tell the truth, act justly, and treat others kindly.
Our actions will reflect whether we feel disposed to be a disciple of Christ.
This is a negative motivation for our actions.
Motivation of the fear of punishment
There are this many seasons in the Liturgical year. Their names are:
Five
Advent, Christmas, Ordinary Times, Lent, Easter.
The intellectual power or faculty which is ordinarily employed by man in adapting thought or action to some end; it is the guiding principle of the human mind in the process of thinking.
Reason
This particular gift from God confers a new life on our souls, a sharing in the
life of God Himself.
Sanctifying Grace
Received at Baptism, this can be lost through moral son. However, a quick trip to the confessional, in repentance, can set everything right.
This is a gift from God that includes the power of directing one’s own actions without constraint. This makes possible the choice to love God.
Free Will
These are little things that we practice within our individual parishes. They are a custom of time, but not bound by any Church doctrine.
traditions with a little “t”
This is the season which marks the start of a new liturgical year:
Advent
Explain the difference between A posteriori and A priori Knowledge.
A posteriori knowledge that comes after the fact. After you have made an observation.
Example: gravity - I see the apple fall therefore there must be force.
A priori knowledge that you have before you have made an observation. Intuition
Example: principles of reasoning/logic
Due to the Fall of man, God gifted man with these as a guide to understanding the law which He inscribed on our hearts.
The Moral Law
This is what it means to be a Disciple of Christ and to Imamate His life.
“Being a follower of Christ means becoming conformed to Him who became a servant even to giving Himself on the Cross. Christ dwells by faith in the heart of the believer and thus the disciple is conformed to the Lord. This is the effect of grace, of the active presence of the Holy Spirit in us.” - Pope St. John Paul II
“Do not be conformed to this world, But be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God – what is good and acceptable and perfect. – Romans 12:2
These are the three sources for Moral Theology within the Church.
Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, The Church Magisterium
We can also include the Natural Law here…
These are the names of the three levels of Feasts within the Catholic Church:
Solemnities, Feasts, Memorials
Name the four principles of reasoning.
Principle of Identity: A thing a, is a. (Anything that is a thing is that thing, a thing is what it is).
Principle of Non-contradiction: One thing cannot be both x and not x in the same time, place, and manner. If something is true, the opposite is false.
Principle of the Excluded Middle: A thing either is or is not, there is no third option.
Principle of Sufficient Reason: For every fact z, there must be a sufficient reason why z is the case. There is a reason/explanation for why any fact is the case.
This type of morality claims that the moral value of our actions depends on the situation and one’s opinion.
Subjective Morality
Christian morality is at the service of love and freedom. Explain how this is so.
Every aspect of Christian morality begins and ends in love.
God offers His love to us. Christ calls us to love as He has. This si the goal of all Christian's, to take on the heart of Christ.
This call of love extends out to the writings and preachings of the Apostles.
Love for God authenticates our love for our neighbor, and our love for our neighbor is indispensable evidence of our genuine love for God.
This is any action that results from a deliberate choice between good and evil or between different degrees of goodness.
Moral Act.
Any thoughtless, unpremeditated act is not a moral act. Acts taken under duress or threat of force are NOT moral acts. Purely physical acts, like breathing, are not moral acts.
This is the reason we wear violet during the Advent and Lenten seasons.
Violet was the color of royalty for most of history. This was due to the rarity of the color in nature as well as the expense of making the color garments. Seeing as Christ is our King, we wear violet to signify the anticipation of the coming King during Advent, and the anticipation of Him ascending to His thrown during Lent.