Vocab
The lack of knowledge.
What is ignorance?
Invincible ignorance is the lack of knowledge for which a person is morally responsible for a lack of diligence.
False
The sinfulness of an act is not determined in part by knowledge. True or False?
False.
The moral law is ________, not reduced to preference or emotion.
Objective
Conscience is a function of ______ and ______.
Reason and Intellect.
That which is opposed to the moral law and thus entails sin.
What is evil?
Evil is coercion or the application of an external force against a person's will.
False
What expresses a person's highest calling?
Love.
Self mastery can liberate us from _______ ________.
Excessive passions.
Conscience is not based on what?
Feelings or Emotions.
The quality of being guilty or deserving punishment for participation in sin.
What is culpable?
Deliberation is the premeditation or forethought that ways one's options before making a moral act.
True.
True or False? Sin and knowledge are intimately related.
False.
Every virtuous act is proceeded by a _______ knowledge of objective moral criteria.
general
What does moral law increase, rather than limits?
Freedom.
Knowledge that is incomplete due to the presence of some obstacle interfering with moral judgement.
What is partial knowledge?
Human act is an act that is performed with both knowledge and free will.
True.
Human Freedom is not absolute -- rather it is limited. True or False?
True
Every human person is morally responsible for his or her own _______ ________.
Moral Acts.
What does freedom require every person to be?
Responsible for his or her actions.
A personal appeal that to carry out a particular action that has been ordered by a legitimate authority would be against one's own conscience.
What is conscientious objection?
Concupiscence is human appetites or desires remain disordered due to the temporal consequences of original sin. This remains even after Baptism and a constitute an inclination to sin. This term is often used to refer to desires resulting from strong sensual urges or other urges of the world.
True.
Conscience is know through what?
Our own human experiences.
A moral act involves both ______ and ______.
deliberation and choice.
Conscience is aided by what?
The Gifts of the Holy Spirit. (given at Baptism)