HNRS Ethics and Morality PCM Chapter 6 tst

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Why is the human person more permanent than the human act?

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Why is the human person more permanent than the human act?

Permanenceā€™human acts are passing things, while human persons continue

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How do we experience ourselves?

as being more than our actions

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What gives actions their human importance?

personhood

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Why are humans morally responsible?

only because they are persons

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What is our third dimension?

personhood

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According to Karl Rahner, personhood is seen as the:

"condition of the possibility"

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The term doer describes what?

humans as agents

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Humans are seen as objects, especially in scholastic theology, is a description as humans as what?

agents

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Humans can be analyzed and known directly is a description of humans as what?

agents

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Humans are changeable beings is a description of humans as what?

agents

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Humans precede, ground, and transcend actions and are be-ers is a description of humans as what?

persons

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Humans are subjects is a description of humans as what?

persons

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Humans cannot be the direct object of knowledge is a description of humans as what?

persons

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Humans extend beyond actions is a description of humans as what?

persons

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Humans are unique is a description of humans as what?

persons

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What knowledge is invloved in human acts?

reflex knowledge

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This is the knowledge that "we know that we know."

reflex knowledge

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What type of knowledge can be the object of reflection within our minds?

reflex knowledge

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This is awareness not available to us as a direct object of reflection.

nonreflex knowledge

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The type of knowledge that we don't know that we know.

nonreflex knowledge

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What is the knowledge of our core human person?

nonreflex knowledge

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How does nonreflex knowledge become reflex knowledge?

Through experience and maturation

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This is the freedom of the human act, associated with doing.

categorical freedom

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Which type of freedom organizes life into categories and then selects from among these categories?

categorical freedom

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This is a limiting freedom, a dividing freedom.

categorical freedom

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This is the freedom associated with our personhood, our being.

transcendental freedom

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What does the freedom of the human person to be transcend?

all categories

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This freedom opens up life.

transcendental freedom

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What does person never exist apart from?

agency and action

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Why do persons never exist apart from agency and action

I am never doing nothing

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How is my personhood expressed and realized?

through and in my actions

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What is the only way nonreflex knowledge is experienced?

through reflex knowledge

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How is transcendental freedom exercised?

only in the exercise of categorical freedom

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True or false: the actions we perform do not always correspond to the beings we are.

true

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Why do the actions we perform not always correspond to the beings we are?

Impediments, sin

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This describes the attitude which gives one's life direction, significance, and definition.

fundamental stance

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True or false: The fundamental stance is one's orientation/posture either towards or away from God/good.

true

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Where is the fundamental stance seen?

It is seen in those with personal identity, self-control

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The fundamental stance is a characteristic of...?

adulthood

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This describes the moment of choosing the fundamental stance.

Fundamental option

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It is the moment when we exercise transcendental freedom to define ourselves as persons.

fundamental option

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What is the fundamental option a name for?

any use of transcendental freedom

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What is the fundamental option subservient to?

Fundamental stance

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True or false: the fundamental option exists by itself.

false

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True or false: we cannot consciously analyze the fundamental option

true

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How can we become aware of the fundamental option?

nonreflexively

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True or false: a fundamental option is final and irrevocable.

false

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True or false: a fundamental stance is final and irrevocable.

false

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True or false: good people with good intentions can commit evil deeds.

true

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True or false: within all of our human acts, a human being is formed

falseā€™in all š˜§š˜¶š˜­š˜­š˜ŗ human acts

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What do fully human acts include, which we create ourselves?

fundamental option

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This is not something we do or choose, but a description of the type of person we are becoming.

fundamental option

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What is the fourth dimension of the human person?

time

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What does the dimension of time imply?

the idea of growth

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What is life?

progress

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We happens as we become more free?

we become more accountable

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How does the depth with which we choose increase?

with time and age

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As we take hold of our lives, our fundamental stance is...?

progressively deepened

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True or false: a new fundamental option deepens the fundamental stance.

true

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How might the fundamental stance be better defined?

the fundamental direction

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A fundamental stance implies that it is ...?

static

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Dimensions of personhood

physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual, intellectual, social

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When the dimensions of personhood work in harmony, the result is ...?

wholeness, a.k.a. holiness

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When one dimension dominates the others, the result is always ...?

evil

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The awareness of our own identity describes what knowledge?

nonreflex knowledge

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A fully human act in which a human being is being formed.

fundamental option

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True or false: Acts of man can be performed with either reflex knowledge or categorical freedom.

false

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This expands the possibilities of personhood.

Transcendental freedom

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True or false: two people are morally identical because they have performed the same acts.

false

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A problem with using human acts as a basis for moral theology is that the acts lack what?

permanence

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True or false: humans can only be morally responsible for human acts

true

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True or false: our personhood is defined by our fundamental stance

true

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True or false: If I could list hat a person does we would be able to define his personhood.

false

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True or false: Generally speaking, our personhood is the basis for how we act.

true

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True or false: A fully human act must include both reflexive and nonreflexive knowledge

true

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True or false: we as persons create ourselves.

true

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True or false: Humans as persons can never be the direct object of knowledge.

true

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