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94 Cards in this Set
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Aims at the deepest reality, the most substantial hidden existing reality in the beloved-- a mataphysical center, deeper than all the qualities and essences which one can discover and enumerate in the beloved |
Love |
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The you that is the object of love |
Person |
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Motive nobler than mere dutu or obligation for doing good, and the manispring of all virtues |
Love |
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Is essentialy the hatred, the rejection, or the turning away from good. |
Evil |
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Means the doing of good and the practice pf virtue. |
Ethics |
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First law of nature which means self-love |
Self-preservation |
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Aa violation of the first law of nature |
Suicide |
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Who alone s the supreme domination over life and death |
God |
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Is not the absolute ownwr of his life: he just borrowed it, so sad to say, and so has no right to dispose of it as he wills. |
Man |
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It is never selfish. It always shares its goodness to another |
Love |
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"There are only 2 words in the vocabulary of love: now and forever." |
Fulton Sheen |
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Commands us to love our neighbors because all men have the same human nature; all have a common origin and destiny |
Moral law |
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Love is defined by ______ as the very current of life |
Confucius |
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It is the very language of the bible |
Love |
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Two foundation stones of morality |
Love and justice |
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Ia a moral virtue which comes as a fruit of the constant and proper observance of rights and duties. |
Justice |
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The constant will and disposition to give each one his due |
Justice |
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Principle of rectitude and fairness in men's relation with each other |
Justice |
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The imposition of wrong on another; it also means the violation of the rights of another or others. |
Injustice |
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Two essential attributes of justice |
Universality and Equality |
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Is an element of justice which requires that justice be applied to all, and not merely to a particular group or class: and that everyone is bound to give to everyone what is his due |
Universality |
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Is a fundamental principle of justice which demands that justice is for all regardless of station or quality in life. |
Equality |
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It signifies the law must be applied to all wothout discrimination |
Equality |
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"Do unto others as you wish others do unto you" |
Golden rule- positive |
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"Do not do unto others what you what you do not want to be done unto you" |
Golden rule-negative |
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First commandment and is a dictate of plain justice |
Love God above all |
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______ in our constitution embody our fundamental rights such as the right to life, liberty and thr pursuit of happiness |
Bill of rights |
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These rights and their correlatives emenate from the principle of justice |
Bill of rights |
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Duties of the state to the citizens |
Distributive justice |
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Duties of the individual to the state |
Legal justice |
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Duties of an individual to another |
Commutative justice |
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The state must fulfill certain duties towards its citizens. These duties are clearly stated in our Constitution |
Distributive justice |
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The citizen in turn has his duties to the state; for instance, to render military service to the state |
Legal justice |
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Every individual should render to another that which belongs to him. The basis of this is the so-called mutualoty of rights and duties |
Commutative Justice |
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It follows from the principle of love and justice that it is wrong to do anything harmful to the body, reputation and property of others |
Duties of justice |
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Is destined by nature, and, therefore, has the natural right to live; and no human authority can destroy it |
Fetus |
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Or mercy killing |
Euthanasia |
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Practice of administering painless death to one suffering from an incurable or loathsome disease, even with the intention to relieve the patient from useless and extremely painful suffering, is not morally jutified on the same ground |
Euthanasia |
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Under certain conditions, it is morally justified to kill an unjust aggresor in ________ |
Self defense |
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One of the greatest possessions that a man has |
Honor |
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It is always wrong even if what is said or written against the person is true or partly true; for truth is not justification for this |
Libel |
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A newly-coined word to signify the neferious practice of extorting money which consists in suppressing the publication of an article deregatory to one's character provided that the intended victim pays a certain amount of money to the publisher |
Adstortion |
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This act has all the malice of extortion and usually involves the malicious intent of libel |
Adstortion |
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One of our duties of love toward our neighbors |
Truthfulness or veracity |
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Is the conformity between what one says and what one has in mind. |
Moral truth |
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Is telling an untruth, telling what is not in one's mind |
Lie |
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It is intrinsically wrong because it is against the natural purpose of speech |
Lying |
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Is a speaking creature; he is given the power of speech in order to be able to live and communicate with his fellow |
Man |
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It tends to disturb the social order, because if men lie, there will be no more mutual trust |
Lying |
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Very basis of harmony and peace in social life |
Mutual trust |
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It does violence to man's social nature and, therefore, is against the moral law |
Lying |
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Making of a statement which would seem a lie wothout qualification but would not be a lie with the proper qualification reserved in one's mind |
Mental reservation |
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Deals with human relations in a community |
Ethics |
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Basis of the whole complexus of human relationships which is the very unit of society |
Family |
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Closest human relations exist among______ |
Family |
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Which is the very basis of family life and society demands respect and love for authority |
Proper relations |
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Primarily and mainly due to the lack or neglect of moral guidance and training on the part of parents for their children in the home |
Evil of teenagerism |
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Is accidentaly disrupting family unity and integrity |
Modern life |
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They should not only look after physical and intellectual welfare of their young but also after their moral training which is the most important of all |
Parents |
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It should be given by constant teaching and good example |
Moral training |
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Basis of social unity and it follows that anything destructive or detrimental to family life and unity is likewise destructive of the social and moral order |
Family unity |
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It destroys family unity |
Divorce |
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It means the breaking down of a solemn promise made in marriage; and it is morally wrong to break one's promise |
Divorce |
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Is essentially a contract, a promise made by couple to stick to each other, for good, because love which is the true essense of this must be true and enduring |
Marriage |
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It stifles the very spirit of love which holds the family together. |
Divorce |
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It is against the primary end of marriage which id the proper upbringing of children; for it deprives the children of their right to be supported by both parents especially when they are young |
Divorce |
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It would place the children in such an atmosphere and situation where they can live only one half of their lives |
Divorce |
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It separates what nature has welded together |
Divorce |
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Is discussed nowadays as a means to check the menace of the so-called population explosion and its attendant and consequent evils |
Birth control |
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Is primarily and fundamentally a moral question which should be viewed and answered from the moral standpoint |
Birth control |
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Two types of birth control |
Natural Artificial |
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It includes continence |
Natural birth control |
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The so called rhythm method |
Continence |
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Includes any device for the purpose of destroying the semen and/or frustrating the end of the sexual act while taking advantage of the pleasure in it. |
Artificial birth control |
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It falls under artificial birth control and involves greater malice |
Willful abortion |
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Sexuality can be considered on a two-fold levels: |
Biological(physiological) level Psychological level |
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The two sexes appear as essentially directed towards one another and at the same time towards the apparition of a third person, a child. |
Biological level |
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Can be valued on a still higher insight. |
Sex |
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Not brutes are involved but persons, sex becomes penetrated, modified, and elevated by human rationlity and distinctively human emotions. |
Psychological level |
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Sexual union in marriage gets a deeper and, consequently, higher meaning. |
Psychological level |
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It is fostered and manifested in many ways but especially through the particular act of sexual intercourse |
Conjugal love |
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Communion between persons, non-mediated anf direct, symbolizing as well as creating the personal love of each other and their openness to offspring |
Sexual union |
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Natural symbol and expression of love, capable of transmitting life the intrinsic malice of birth control comes clearly to the fore |
Intercourse |
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It belies conjugal love of which sexual union is the symbol and expression. It is the falsification of love |
Contraception |
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Is a periodic continence that limits the family size or spacing of children. |
Rhythm method |
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Requires a painful discipline and can be a more tender and fuller expression of marital love than sexual union. |
Continence |
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It is an act of self sacrifice for the good of others |
Continence |
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It is unethical because it destroys the physiological structure of the two sexes but especially it is wounding conjugal love which is the end and purpose of human sexual relation |
Artificial birth control |
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It does not only mean as many children as possible as if one is only after the maximum quantity but it is more a matter of the quality of children to be raised as human beings that can take their rightful place of service in society |
Generous fertility |
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Means of controlling birth |
Pills |
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It confronts ethics and moral theology with a new situation |
Pill |
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Whose function is simply to regularize an abnormal cycle and which is used for such purpose, seems to be licit, as any normal medicine can be licit, when the method of rhythm is morally advisable |
Pill |
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Whose function is to simply inhibit the ovulation or which it is simply used for such purpose. |
Pill |
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The use of pill method is lawful and agreed upon in _________ |
Catholic Moral Theology |