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From the Greek term that means "habit" or "custom"
What is The science of Ethics
100
Alternative theory of truth that states that "truth is what works"
What is Pragmatic Truth Theory?
100
Action that is both conscious and willing: man is the owner of the action
What is Free Action?
100
Truth independent of the knower.
What is Objective Truth?
100
Truth that is dependent on the Knower
What is Subjective Truth?
200
Ordained to the acquisition of a stable knowledge.
What is Speculative Science?
200
From the latin term that means "custom" in the sense of natural inclination to act with intention i.e. direction to an end
What is Morals?
200
The stable and interminable possession of the supreme good which satisfies man's desire totally.
What is Happiness?
200
The Alternative truth theory that states that "truth is that which is clearly understood by reason alone"
What is The Rationalist theory of Truth?
200
The science that is ordered to a specific action.
What is Practical Science?
300
Claims that although we may know objective truth in non-religious fields, especially in the sciences, we cannot know objective truth in religion.
What is Religious Skepticism?
300
Principle with which the operation of an action begins
What is Order of Executing?
300
Truth is not a relationship of correspondence between an idea and its external object, but the coherence or oneness or harmony among a set of ideas.
What is The Coherence Theory of Truth?
300
The object of the human will.
What is The Good, as it is understood by our intellect?
300
Any thought, word, deed, desire, or omission which comes from a man acting with full knowledge of what he is doing, while remaining free to act or refrain from action, yet at the same time giving his full assent to the action.
What is a Free Will Act?
400
The total fulfillment of all desire? (be specific in the way you phrase the question)
In what does "happiness" consist?
400
To love God above all things and more than oneself.
What is the first commandment of the natural law and divine positive law?
400
the intelligence forms concepts which are universal: all love is good, all pleasure is good, all security is good etc. then the intellect presents the universal to the will.
How does the intellect understand the Good?
400
Principle that moves the appetite toward a specific action.
What is The order of intending?
400
That which fulfills the whole of a person's appetite in such a way that there is nothing outside of that which is left to be desired.
What is the last end, or ultimate end?
500
The Metaphysical Study of the end of man and of human acts in so far as they are related to that end
What is the object, goal or end, of the moral order
500
Natural human fulfillment or earthly happiness that ultimately is incomplete. Versus perfect and complete happiness that is unending.
What is the difference between the natural last end and the supernatural last end of a human person?
500
Through intellectual knowledge and willful love.
How does man tend toward God according to his own being?
500
Union with God that is required by our natural last end but is beyond our natural power as a creature to achieve.
What is the Beatific Vision?
500
Through participating the the being of God.
How does each creature tend toward God according to its own manner of being?