Good Vibes
A decision making process that focuses on the implications and consequences of an action or choice
What is discernment?
When I use my reason and intellect to move beyond the facts of the matter & think of the future and all possibilities, I am looking for these.
What are alternatives and consequences?
The "P" in the STOP method stands for this.
What is prayer?
Freedom is not, by necessity, absolute or unlimited - this is excessive or undisciplined.
What is license?
This is universal and corresponds to three drives or needs that every human being has.
What is Natural Law?
Four pivotal virtues that support moral living - all others come from these: prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance
What are the Cardinal Virtues?
Details surrounding the action - these can only increase or diminish the goodness or evil of the choice, and sometimes our responsibility.
The Bishops, in union with the Pope, who are entrusted with handing on the faith.
Disordered relationships to things, repeated negative behavior with difficulty stopping.
What are inordinate attachments?
Causal determinism is true, but we still act as free, morally responsible agents when, in the absence of external constraints, our actions are caused by our desires.
What is compatibalism?
A “hinge” virtue. The moral virtue that inclines you to discern a good, ethical, and moral life, and to choose the means to accomplish it. Right reason in action
What is Prudence?
The reason we do things, our personal end or goal, can help us see the goodness or evil of an action more clearly. This is subjective and resides in my will.
What is intention or motive?
In seeking out the wisdom of others I can look to the Beatitudes and the Ten Commandments. I find these in in a specific place.
What is scripture?
Our choices are affected by things like not paying attention or being distracted, or not knowing.
What are impediments to freedom?
Any doctrine or belief that denies the existence of any absolute or universal moral truth
What is Moral Relativism?
This must be used for the common good, be based in reason, and be given by a competent authority.
What is Law?
Moral content of an action which must be directed towards the good.
What is the moral object?
Summarized in the Sermon on the Mount - no new rules, but explains the core attitudes necessary for moral living.
What is the New Law?
Freedom from factors outside yourself that threaten or destroy your power to exercise choice
What is external freedom?
Because of this theory, I believe I will always be bound to my bad habits due to my parents treating me poorly. I can't help myself.
What is determinism?
the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one’s own responsibility.
What is Freedom?
Morality is grounded in reality - the way things are, and how they should be to function best/properly
What is objective reality?
The Law of Moses, summarized in the Ten Commandments. This forms the building blocks for the New Law of Love.
What is the Old Law?
This is limited for me, because I have the condition of Schizophrenia.
What is internal freedom?
This applies natural law to the members of any given society according to custom and circumstance.
What is civil law?