Morality Chapter 3 "God's Law for a Good Life"

In his ‘Address to Clergy and Laity Concerned’, Dr. King refers to ___ as ‘the supreme unifying principle of life’ that people of all great religions have come to know.

• love

• peace

• joy

• forgiveness

The Catechism of the Catholic Church describes natural law as ‘present in the heart of each man and established by reason, is ____ in its precepts and its authority extends to all men.

• universal

• understanding

• logical

• frivolous

Natural law is unchangeable and permanent throughout history.

• True

• False

Unlike biological or chemical laws for example, the _____ is fulfilled only in so far as we make good moral choices.

• revealed law

• divine law

• eternal law

• natural moral law

The natural law tradition teaches that when people use human reason to reflect on ____ and experience, they can arrive at the moral law.

• their anger

• human nature

• divine inspiration

• the resurrection

• their desires

Taught that the ‘good life’ must be a moral life and can be lived only by conforming to the laws that we can discern within nature.

• Stoics

• Gryffindors

• Romans

• Platos

Natural Law

• God's law written on our hearts

• State written laws

• Federal written laws

• All of the Above

Three ways to analyze a moral decision...

• Object, Circumstance, Intention

• Objective Act, Intention, Circumference

• Objective Adult, Intention, Circumstance

• Objective Actuality, Circumference, Intention

I taught that through honoring the natural law, the human person participates in the eternal law of God, who is the ultimate source of all moral law and obligations.

• Thomas Aquinas

• Cicero

• Kanye West

• Jesus is always the answer

Those who do not have access to Scripture are not held accountable to natural law because they cannot discern God’s ‘natural’ moral law from their own conscience and by looking at life in the world.

• True

• False