The Human Condition
The spiritual self that was created at conception and will live on past death.
What is soul?
What is hedonism?
The order in creation that reflects God's will and purpose. It cannot fully be known by humans, but any true and good law reflects this law.
What is eternal law?
This source of moral law can be accessed by any human born into the world.
What is natural law?
These were revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai.
What are the 10 commandments?
The God-given capacity for humans to choose how to act.
What is free will?
Ethical system in which the phrase "you do you" could be grounded.
What is relativism?
The moral law that can be understood through human reason. It is the universal ability to live in right relationship with God, ourselves and others.
What is natural law?
This source of the moral law can be divided into the Old and the New.
What is Divine Law?
The law that perfects and brings to fulfillment the Old Law. Also known as the Law of Love.
What is the New Law?
Our ability to see and know things. This allows us to know God and the world.
What is intellect?
An ethical framework that is concerned with the consequences of one's actions.
What is utilitarianism or consequentialism?
The rational expression of eternal law.
What is moral law?
Attending Mass on Sundays is a precept from this source of law.
What is the Law of the Church?
These series of "blessings" proclaimed by Jesus on the Sermon on the Mount show us what it means to live in the Kingdom of God.
What are the beatitudes?
The latin phrase that expresses that humans are a reflection of God.
An ethical framework we've studied that requires a set of rules or values as the basis for good and bad. (the answer is not christian morality).
What is deontology.
Two human capacities that help us understand moral law.
What is intellect and conscience?
The code of conduct for the Church that is expressed in a large book.
What is Canon Law?
"You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself." <-The name for this two-fold commandment.
What are the Great Commandments?
A fancy word referring to the human inclination to sin. Starts with a "c."
What is concupiscence?
An ethical system in which actions are the main indicator of a good or bad action.
What is deontology?
Because natural law has been clouded by original sin, humans can turn to these places to try to understand and follow God's law.
What is Scripture and The Church?
The way that the Holy Spirit guides the entire body of the Church through the consciences of its people.
What is Sensus Fidelium?
Fill in the blank: The New Law is revealed in the life and teaching of Jesus Christ and the witness and teaching of the ___.
Who are the apostles?