HNRS Ethics and Morality PCM Chapter 6 tst

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

Permanence’human 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

false’in all 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 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