Chapter 2 - Social Doctrine

(a)   comes into play in the exercise of every other virtue, which is why it is called one of the “hinge” virtues

Justice is a social virtue, but it always begins with a(n) (a)   act.

Concerned not directly with the rights of individual persons, _____________justice is

directed toward the common good of society.

• Legal

• commutative

• social

• distributive

The (a)   (2 words), present in the heart of every human being and established by reason, expresses the dignity of the person and determines the basis for his or her fundamental rights and duties.

Since most external acts have some social consequences, almost every act of virtue or vice will involve justice or (a)   (its opposite) .

A habitual and firm disposition to do good

• Virtue

• justice

• rights

• charity

Prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance; from the Latin for “hinge” because all others swing upon them as a door swings upon its hinges, the name for these stable dispositions of the intellect and will that govern actions, order passions, and guide conduct in accordance with faith and reason

• norms

• Theological virtues

• cardinal virtues

• beatitudes

The form of justice that governs the ordinary transactions of everyday life, directing us to honor promises, contracts, and commitments

• commutative justice

• legal justice

• social justice

• distributive justice

The goods that are owed to a person by nature, which are inviolable and belong to every human being because of his or her inherent dignity as a person possessing a rational intellect and will

• justice

• rights

• charity

• property

The form of justice that governs the ways and means by which authority distributes the goods and obligations of social life among the members of society

• commutative

• legal

• social

• distributive