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Why is the human person more permanent than the human act?
Permanenceāhuman acts are passing things, while human persons continue
How do we experience ourselves?
as being more than our actions
What gives actions their human importance?
personhood
Why are humans morally responsible?
only because they are persons
What is our third dimension?
personhood
According to Karl Rahner, personhood is seen as the:
"condition of the possibility"
The term doer describes what?
humans as agents
Humans are seen as objects, especially in scholastic theology, is a description as humans as what?
agents
Humans can be analyzed and known directly is a description of humans as what?
agents
Humans are changeable beings is a description of humans as what?
agents
Humans precede, ground, and transcend actions and are be-ers is a description of humans as what?
persons
Humans are subjects is a description of humans as what?
persons
Humans cannot be the direct object of knowledge is a description of humans as what?
persons
Humans extend beyond actions is a description of humans as what?
persons
Humans are unique is a description of humans as what?
persons
What knowledge is invloved in human acts?
reflex knowledge
This is the knowledge that "we know that we know."
reflex knowledge
What type of knowledge can be the object of reflection within our minds?
reflex knowledge
This is awareness not available to us as a direct object of reflection.
nonreflex knowledge
The type of knowledge that we don't know that we know.
nonreflex knowledge
What is the knowledge of our core human person?
nonreflex knowledge
How does nonreflex knowledge become reflex knowledge?
Through experience and maturation
This is the freedom of the human act, associated with doing.
categorical freedom
Which type of freedom organizes life into categories and then selects from among these categories?
categorical freedom
This is a limiting freedom, a dividing freedom.
categorical freedom
This is the freedom associated with our personhood, our being.
transcendental freedom
What does the freedom of the human person to be transcend?
all categories
This freedom opens up life.
transcendental freedom
What does person never exist apart from?
agency and action
Why do persons never exist apart from agency and action
I am never doing nothing
How is my personhood expressed and realized?
through and in my actions
What is the only way nonreflex knowledge is experienced?
through reflex knowledge
How is transcendental freedom exercised?
only in the exercise of categorical freedom
True or false: the actions we perform do not always correspond to the beings we are.
true
Why do the actions we perform not always correspond to the beings we are?
Impediments, sin
This describes the attitude which gives one's life direction, significance, and definition.
fundamental stance
True or false: The fundamental stance is one's orientation/posture either towards or away from God/good.
true
Where is the fundamental stance seen?
It is seen in those with personal identity, self-control
The fundamental stance is a characteristic of...?
adulthood
This describes the moment of choosing the fundamental stance.
Fundamental option
It is the moment when we exercise transcendental freedom to define ourselves as persons.
fundamental option
What is the fundamental option a name for?
any use of transcendental freedom
What is the fundamental option subservient to?
Fundamental stance
True or false: the fundamental option exists by itself.
false
True or false: we cannot consciously analyze the fundamental option
true
How can we become aware of the fundamental option?
nonreflexively
True or false: a fundamental option is final and irrevocable.
false
True or false: a fundamental stance is final and irrevocable.
false
True or false: good people with good intentions can commit evil deeds.
true
True or false: within all of our human acts, a human being is formed
falseāin all š§š¶šššŗ human acts
What do fully human acts include, which we create ourselves?
fundamental option
This is not something we do or choose, but a description of the type of person we are becoming.
fundamental option
What is the fourth dimension of the human person?
time
What does the dimension of time imply?
the idea of growth
What is life?
progress
We happens as we become more free?
we become more accountable
How does the depth with which we choose increase?
with time and age
As we take hold of our lives, our fundamental stance is...?
progressively deepened
True or false: a new fundamental option deepens the fundamental stance.
true
How might the fundamental stance be better defined?
the fundamental direction
A fundamental stance implies that it is ...?
static
Dimensions of personhood
physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual, intellectual, social
When the dimensions of personhood work in harmony, the result is ...?
wholeness, a.k.a. holiness
When one dimension dominates the others, the result is always ...?
evil
The awareness of our own identity describes what knowledge?
nonreflex knowledge
A fully human act in which a human being is being formed.
fundamental option
True or false: Acts of man can be performed with either reflex knowledge or categorical freedom.
false
This expands the possibilities of personhood.
Transcendental freedom
True or false: two people are morally identical because they have performed the same acts.
false
A problem with using human acts as a basis for moral theology is that the acts lack what?
permanence
True or false: humans can only be morally responsible for human acts
true
True or false: our personhood is defined by our fundamental stance
true
True or false: If I could list hat a person does we would be able to define his personhood.
false
True or false: Generally speaking, our personhood is the basis for how we act.
true
True or false: A fully human act must include both reflexive and nonreflexive knowledge
true
True or false: we as persons create ourselves.
true
True or false: Humans as persons can never be the direct object of knowledge.
true
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