Ecumenism Midterm

Aristotle said we desire/love 3 types of things. Which is not one of these 3?

Things unknown to us

Which type of friendship is the simple entering into a partnership with another, and mutual respect is shared?

Accidental friendship

What is Eros?

Greek word for romantic love and sexual attraction

Which of the following does happiness not seek?

Isolation

Which friendship’s purpose is self interest?

Pleasurable friendship

What are the 2 titles that Peter responds to Jesus with when Jesus asked- “who do you say I am?”

The Messiah, the Son of (the Living) God

Who said that technology offers “immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity” and is a “gift from God?”

Pope Francis 1

Acceptance of the word of another, trusting that one knows what the other is saying and is honest in telling the truth

human faith

According to Aristotle, acting rationally is a function of _____, it is what they were made to do.

Human beings

Which type of friendship is concerned for the friend, for the friend’s own sake?

True friendship

A habitual and firm disposition to do the good

Virtue

Which is not one of the four points for thinking rationally, according to Aristotle?

Allows us to use other people to be able to gain a rational advantage

The human act of believing

Act of faith

In a pleasurable friendship, when the pleasure disappears…

the friendship dissolves

The friendship with one’s mechanic who fixes one’s car or one’s postman who delivers one’s mail

Accidental friendship

Truth is a ____- neither exclusively mine nor exclusively yours, but ours

Common good

An authentic human life should strive for moving away from all of the following except for which one?

Self sacrifice

Friendship’s key should be the concern for the goods held in common by the two friends

True

When the Church warns us about the possibility of Spiritual Death, which is she NOT referring to?

The desire of friendship

A speculative mental state that allows us to consider situations apart from the here and now

Imagination

The pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic method

Science

A truth that is importable for you to know without examining it+ you must use your senses to inspect it

Checkable truths

Philosophy means love of…

Wisdom

Isolating the repeatable content common to an infinity of possible particular instances

Universals

A person or thing that gives rise to an action, phenomenon, or condition

Cause

The individual objects of sense-perception

Particulars

The scientific approach to human nature

Outsider’s view

Philosophy makes use of, or exploits, which type of data?

Data gained from our ordinary experiences

Anything other than the first cause has a ___ of its being

Cause

Knowing through direct experience that takes place within a person individually

Insider’s view

“All oceans are large,” is an example of which type of truth

Conceptual truth

The power/faculty of the mind by which one knows/understands

Intellect

The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence

Philosophy

Holds that the only thing that can be truly proven to exist is matter

Materialism

“The milk is sour,” is an example of which kind of truth?

Checkable truth

The act or power of forming a mental image of something

Imagination

“There is no Ruth” is a contradiction because it is a truth statement in itself. This statement is which type of truth?

Conceptual truth

Every productive cause must be equal to or superior to its effect in dignity and perfection

True

Truths about something we can see without having to consult all of the individual instances

Conceptual truths

A person or force in a story that works against the protagonist’s efforts

Antagonist

A habitual and firm disposition to do good

Virtue

The science that aims to explain and justify religious doctrine. It shows the reasonableness of such doctrine in the face of the objections offered

Apologetics

An ordered sequence of events with a beginning, middle, and end, in which a protagonist pursues a goal

Story

The acceptance of the word of another, trusting that one knows what the other is saying and and is honest in telling the truth

Human faith

Something that brings to perfection one of our human capabilities

Good (goodness)

The chief or main character of a story

Protagonist

Truths about something we can see without having to consult all the individual instances onCe we have formed certain concepts about them

Conceptual truth

The intellect and the will

Soul

The pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence

Science

The philosophical term for the lenses through which we see the world through

Paradigm

God intervenes in history to make mysteries known

Supernatural mystery

Comes from the Latin verb “ligare,” meaning “to bind”

Law

we accept various natural concepts as givens even though they cannot fully comprehend them all

Natural mystery

One who provides a defense for Christianity using both wisdom and reason

Apologetic

Refers to either realities that are unknown to the human mind of to truths that the human intellect cannot fully comprehend

Mystery

Which theory states that “the strongest live and the weakest die?”

Natural Selection

God’s providential law governing the universe as it pertains to human beings

Natural law

Which theory states that ”an organism bears within itself the cause of its own life, growth, and development?”

Paley’s Natural Theory

Greek word “Logos”

The Word

The denial of the existence of God

Atheism

Hebrew word for Lord

Adonai

The first 5 books of the Bible

Law of Moses/ Torah/ Pentatook

An Old Testament example of Natural Law being given to the Israelites

10 Commandments

Famous prayer that is said daily by the Jews focused on the oneness of God

Shema

A name given to Jesus due to his willingness to lay down his life out of service to others

Suffering Servant

Jewish laws that addressed unclean good given to the Israelites by God

Kosher laws

Means “I am who I am”

Yahweh (YHWH)

8 precepts that insist true happiness is found in living out the Messiah’s teachings

Beatitudes

The Jewish prophet who insisted that all nations would one day worship the Jewish God

Isaiah