Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Study Guide for Tomorrow's Quiz

1. In our human existence there are three kinds of goods. List and briefly explain them.
2. What makes an act good or evil? List and briefly explain the three moral determinants.
3. For an act to be good and moral, what must you do?
4. What three kinds of relationships exist for humans?
5. What three branches of ethics correspond to these relationships?
6. How does St. Augustine define morality?
7. What is love described as?
8. Humans love on three levels – list and briefly explain them.
9. How should we love God?
10. How do we love others?
11. Why can we claim that we must love every other human person, but we cannot “like” every other person? Explain.
12. How should we love things?
13. What three universal moral rules seem to apply across cultures?
14. What is the conscience?
15. List three mental functions which correspond to the work of the conscience.
16. What is the intellect and how does the conscience function with it?
17. What is the will and how does the conscience function with it?
18. What is emotion and how does the conscience function with it?
19. Define Virtue.
20. List the seven attitudes/dispositions/actions that the Beatitudes indicate provide ultimate happiness for the human being.
21. List three reasons virtues are important.
22. What is the ultimate goal of virtues?
23. List and briefly define the four cardinal virtues.
24. List and briefly define the three theological virtues