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Catholic Ethics
Fallacies
Moral Acts
Hobbes
Potpourri
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the study of moral right and wrong
What is Ethics?
100
a fallacy in which a statement or claim is assumed to be true without evidence other than the statement or claim itself.
What is begging the question?
100
the action being done
What is the object of a moral act?
100
The Leviathan
What is Hobbes' most famous book?
100
Ignatian prayer that helps humans reflect on their day and connect with God
What is the Examen?
200
Our mind's power of understanding
What is reason?
200
a fallacy in which a claim or argument is rejected based on some irrelevant fact about the author or the person presenting the claim or argument.
What is "ad hominem"?
200
The person(s) doing the act
What is the agent of a moral act?
200
"Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
What is a human life without ethics?
200
an ethical exercise where you discuss different moral options
What is a case study?
300
What God has told us about God's self and creation
What is Revelation?
300
"against the person" in Latin
What is the meaning of "ad hominem"?
300
object+intention
What is the core of a human action?
300
The philosophy of Hobbes that states that human beings always act out of perceived self interest
What is rational egoism?
300
a false argument
What is a fallacy?
400
Using reason to understand the meaning of the world and our lives
What is philosophy?
400
Begging the Question
What is "The Bible is true because the Bible says so" an example of?
400
why you have chosen to do the object in question
What is the intention of an action?
400
"State of Nature"
What is a state where there are no enforced moral laws or rules and no common power?
400
reasons or evidence in an argument
What is a premise?
500
Using reason and revelation to determine moral right and wrong
What is Catholic Ethics?
500
No Fallacy
What is the statement "Carrots are healthy because they have vitamin E" an example of?
500
a secondary element that affects either the person who is performing the action or the content of the action itself.
What is a circumstance?
500
One of these five is to keep society from falling into chaos
What is one of the 5 purposes for morality?
500
the thing that you are trying to prove in a logical argument
What is a conclusion?