morality final part 1

mutilation

Harming your body in any way by cutting, removing something, or altering one's appearance

Just war

Engaging in combat to stop an unjust aggressor

Moral theology

The study of human actions that lead us towards or away from God.

virtue

A good habit that requires practice and persistence and assists us in becoming morally good

grace

A gift from God that helps us grow in holiness and become like Him

prudence

Knowing and deciding to follow the best path - a virtue

Jesus

Beatitudes are the image of

Imago Dei

Latin for "Image of God"

Objective truth

Something that's always true no matter how you think or feel about it

Basic moral precept

"Do good; avoid evil"

Unjust human law

A man-made law that contradicts natural or divine law and harms society

Human law

Any man-made law

character

The totality of a person; the sum of a person's virtues and vices

Natural law

God's law written in our hearts that we must obey in order to be fulfilled

relativism

People think and act as if there is: no God, no good or bad in the moral sense; no "real" truth; everyone decides their own truth

Moral truth

Truth concerning the inherent (built in) goodness or badness of an object or act

Human act

Any action performed with knowledge and free-will

Act of man

Any action that is not dependent upon intellect and free-will

Inherently evil

No matter the circumstances or intention, this act is always wrong

conscience

An act of judgment by which a person applies general moral principles to his own actions here and now

Correct conscience

When I correctly judge the goodness or badness of an act

Erroneous conscience

When I misjudge or incorrectly judge the goodness or badness of an act

Lax conscience

When a person judges a serious act as only minor or a venial sin as no sin at all

Scrupulous conscience

When a person forms the habit of imagining a sin where none exists or a serious sin when it's only venial

Doubtful conscience

Never act on a:

Venial sin

Any sin that's not Mortal