The Morality of Passions

What are passions? (Check all that applies)

• Feelings

• Emotions

• Movements of the sensitive appetite

Match the following

• Moral conscience

• Article 5

• The morality of passions

• Article 4

• The morality of human acts

• Article 6

The passions are natural components of the human psyche; they form the passageway and ensure the connection between the life of the senses and the life of the mind.

• True

• False

According to Our Lord, what is the source from which the passions spring?

"To love is to will the ____ of another."

What is the most fundamental passion?

• Desire

• Hatred

• Love

• Anger

In themselves passions are good or evil.

• True

• False

They are morally qualified only to the extent that they effectively engage _____ and _____ (choose two answers)

• Reason

• Will

• Freedom

• Responsibility

Moral perfection consists in man's being moved to the _____ not by his will alone, but also by his sensitive appetite, as in the words of the psalm: "My heart and flesh sing for joy to the living 30 God."

Emotions and feelings can be taken up in the virtues or perverted by the _____ .