Morality Unit 1 Concept Test Review

____________________ means that we are responsible for the choices we make, particularly in moral matters.

• intentional act

• intellect

• motive

• freedom

• conscience

Ignorance of Christ and His Gospel , bad example given by others, enslavement to one’s passions, and assertion of a mistaken notion of autonomy of conscience are all reasons that:

• we can fail to form our conscience

• culpability could be lessened

• basic goods are important

• determinism is wrong

• the Natural Law is not always followed

________ asserts that God's love, being His very essence, is more primordial and non-negotiable than His omniscience and omnipotence.

• St. Thomas Aquinas

• Jean-Paul Sartre

• St. Ignatius of Loyola

• Dr. Peter Kreeft

• Pope St. John Paul II

_______ can be diminished or nullified by ignorance, inadvertence, duress, fear, habit, inordinate attachments, and other psychological or social factors.

• conscience

• culpability

• free will

• determinism

• motive

 In order for an act to be morally good, at least two parts of it must be good: the intentional act, the motive, and/or the circumstances.

• True

• False

All dogs are cats.

All lizards are cats.

Therefore, all dogs are lizards.

• valid

• invalid

In ethics, the search for a foundation for our moral beliefs, something solid that would make them true in a way that is clear is known as:

• virtue ethics

• Natural Law Theory

• the grounding problem

• the principle of non-contradiction

• Logical Syllogisms

The Golden Rule, "do unto others as you would have them do to you," is an example of:

• Morality

• Ethics

• Natural Law Theory

• All of the above

• None of the above

Sometimes, we see what we should do, but ______ overpowers our reason, and we fail to do the things we know we should.

• ignorance

• emotion

• fear

• conscience

• apathy

Which philosopher said, "We're all born with a God-shaped hole inside of us" ?

• Dr. Peter Kreeft

• Aristotle

• Jean-Paul Sartre

• St. Thomas Aquinas

• Pope St. John Paul II