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Theo 4
chapter 1 vocab
Question | Answer |
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Positive Morality | These are statements about morality that ask us to do something good |
Negative Morality | These are statements about morality that ask us to avoid evil |
Prudence | knowing and doing the right thing (right reason in action) |
Justice | giving to others what they deserve |
Courage | doing what is right even in the face of difficulty |
Temperance | controlling our bodily desires, in the correct way and the correct amount, (usually in regard to food, sex, and alcohol) |
Concupiscence | This is the general and constant temptation or inclination all humans have towards sinning. |
Grace | Simple elegance or refinement of movement |
Natural Law | is a system of law that is purportedly determined by nature, and thus universal |
Subjective Morality | The idea that there are no moral truths, right or wrong, all morality is only based on opinions and nothing more. Things like “right”, “wrong”, ”good,” and “evil” have no real value, except that which each individual assigns them at any given time |
Objective morality | The true belief about morality that recognizes there are actual moral truths. Some actions are morally good and others are morally evil |