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The Importance of Others
The Importance of Having Direction in Life
The Importance of Character and One`s Body
The Importance of Conscience
Key terms
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Self-absorption that causes one to loose sight of the importance of balance between self-love and love for others in order to develop a healthy self-identity. A healthy individual will work for a relationship to attain a balance, while the individual suffering from ____ will not look beyond the self to achieve this balance.
What is Narcissism?
100
Not knowing who you are and not knowing where you stand on certain issues. This can be a confusing and difficult time that many individuals experience during their adolescent years. They can not establish significant values, making it difficult to experience life’s situations as they can be seen as good or meaningful, others as bad or trivial.
What is an identity crisis?
100
Definition: Refers to the way one`s actions, over time, tend to become fixed in one`s body.
What is Character?
100
A voice that calls us to love and to do good and to avoid evil. The church calls this a law inscribed in human hearts by God.
What is Conscience?
100
a human being regarded as an individual.
What is a person?
200
Existentialist who believes that others can become “my hell” and states, “I may choose to build bridges but that is wholly my decision. I don’t need others. I can be a full human being and free without them”.
What is the opinion o Jean-Paul Sartre?
200
Your ____ make your values clear, which is essential to your self-identity as well as your moral self. Identifying your ______ means knowing who you are and where you stand with the greater issues of life.
What are commitments?
200
How many distinct meanings are there for the word person?
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March 23, 1534, Parliament passed this act, vesting the succession of King Henry VII and Anne Boleyn.
What is the Act of Succession?
200
the moral and mental qualities distinctive to an individual.
What is a character
300
a worldview centered on human interest and values, and the individual’s capacity for self-realization through reason and action.
What is humanism?
300
Once can determine one’s fundamental ____ based on who we are within society, in our relationships and who we are to ourselves. Also known as one's moral direction.
What is your stance in life?
300
One God in three persons; the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
What is the Holy Trinity?
300
The ego that tells us we are good when we are told what to do and makes us feel bad whenever we don’t listen to authority.
What is the Superego?
300
an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.
What is conscience
400
Others are seen as an obstacle standing in the way of personal freedom by governing our opinions. There exists an emphasis on autonomy, independence and freedom, making the life of a self-made individual so appealing.
What is the Western viewpoint of others?
400
Taylor considers our ____ to be defined by the significant values that give us our fundamental direction in life. We develop our _______ through the commitments we take part in. Charles Taylor argues that there exists an essential link between one’s moral direction or stance in life and one’s ________.
What is an identity?
400
When you repeat an action, over time, the action becomes fixed and eventually others will recognize this as one of your ________________. Ex: helpful, stubborn, etc.
What are Character Traits?
400
rationalization, trivialization, misinformation, the end justifies the immoral means, means to an end and difficult to reason, are all sign of ...?
What is a malformed conscience
400
the distinguishing character of a person. My identity is determined in large part by the moral stance that I take in life.
What is identity
500
A word that can be used to describe things that are influenced by human relationships. Describing the relationship between concepts that can only be understood in terms of interactions between individuals and groups
What is the meaning of relational?
500
Your stance in life is not only shaped by you, but also by the influences of ______. What you value, aspire to and work for was first introduced as good and desirable by the _____in your life. Charles Taylor writes that we live in a world shaped by language, as our ______ teach us right from wrong and communicate to us values. To answer the question, “Who am I?” you must recognize the ________ you were born into, of whose language you speak and of whom you were raised by.One can not be one’s self on one’s own, therefore the full definition of someone's identity involves some reference to a ________.
What is our defining community?
500
Principles learned over time that help to develop one`s character.
What are Moral Principles?
500
'You have to be able to search in that situation the right thing to do. You must want to learn the facts, learn what the moral are of that situation and reason correctly in moral matters in order to act according to your conscience.' Is which of the three senses of conscience?
What is the conscience as a process of moral reasoning
500
“...the central mystery of the Christian faith and of Christian life. God alone can make it known to us by revealing himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.”
What is Trinity