Moral Principles
The theories used to determine how to declare war and how to fight in war.
What is ius ad bellum and ius in bello?
The type of law that is highest above all others.
What is eternal law?
The Latin for image and likeness
What is Imago Dei?
The 4th Commandment
What is Honor your father and mother?
Man can achieve happiness through his own will; pleasure is the primary goal of happiness.
What is the ubermensch?
The type of conscience that is well ordered and knows good as good and bad as bad.
What is a true conscience?
Type of law that is seen in the Old and New Testaments.
What is divine law?
The term that says the body and soul are integrated into the human person; both are of the same value.
What is hylomorphism?
The essence of the first three commandments.
What is love of neighbor?
Spiritual practice that literally means to yoke oneself; is not morally permissible.
What is yoga?
The three types of ignorance.
What is
1. Vincible
2. Invincible
3. Concomitant
Define natural law.
What is
1. Our participation in the eternal law
2. Is unchanging and universal
3. Common amongst all humans
4. Helps us live morally.
Heresy that says the body is bad and the soul is good; soul is trapped inside the body.
What is dualism?
The type of labor that is prohibited on Sabbath.
What is servile/hard labor?
The three theological virtues that support the 1st commandment.
What is faith, hope, and charity?
S.L.E.D. acronym meaning
What is
S - Size
L - Level of Development
E - Environment
D - Degree of Dependency
The definition of law.
What is an ordinance of reason promulgated by a proper authority for the common good?
What are
1. Self-preservation
2. Procreation
3. Knowledge
4. Living in society
What is abortion, euthanasia, murder, suicide, self-harm, bodily mutilation, etc.
The correct answer to the trolley problem (using double effect).
What is don't pull the lever?
The four principles of double effect in the proper order.
What is
1. The act cannot be intrinsically evil.
2. Good effect intended, bad is tolerated.
3. Ends do not justify the means.
4. Grave reason; good outweighs the bad.
When is a law unjust?
What is
1. Does not uphold the common good
2. violates the objective moral order
The four levels of happiness, in the proper order, according to St. Thomas Aquinas.
What is
1. Physical pleasure and material possessions.
2. Ego gratification
3. Goods beyond yourself
4. God
Commandment that emphasizes a spirit of detachment; is an interior disposition.
What is the 7th Commandment?
A sin against the virtue of religion.
What is superstition, idolatry, divination/magic/sorcery?