Unit S1.3 End of Unit Assignment

Which of the following is FALSE about how intentions and circumstances affect an objectively evil action?

• Good intentions and circumstances can change the action so that it's not bad.
• Bad intentions and circumstances can make the action even worse.
• Good intentions and circumstances can reduce the evil or culpability but the action remains evil.
• All of the above.

Why we do a particular action is also known as...

• Intentions
• Objective Actions
• Moral Content
• Circumstances

True or False: Not all human acts are considered moral acts.

• "true"
• "false"
• not this one
• not this one

True or False: By themselves, passions are morally neutral but can become good or evil if they help us to do good or evil.

• "true"
• "false"
• not this one
• not this one

True or False: An evil act that has good intentions and good circumstances is bad.

• "true"
• "false"
• not this one
• not this one

True or False: A good act (like going to mass) could become an evil act depending on the intention and circumstances (like to steal old ladies' purses).

• "true"
• "false"
• not this one
• not this one

Which of the following is an example of how intentions or circumstances ruined an objectively good action?

• A figure skater takes performance enhancing drugs because she wants to win a competition.
• A person goes to Mass so that he can report back to the communists anything the priest said against communism.
• A mother lies to her son because she wants to spare him worry until cancer test results that were done on the son come back.
• A basketball player takes a drug that his doctor prescribed him in order to manage a heart condition that he has.

What are the three components of a moral act (as opposed to a human act)?

• Intention, Object, Circumstances
• Choice, Deliberation, Moral Content
• Free Will, Choice, Moral Content
• All of the above

How blameworthy/responsible someone is for an action is known as...

• Passions
• Culpability
• Intentions
• Cooperation with Evil

True or False: The principle of double effect allows you to do something evil as long as the good outweighs the evil in the end.

• "true"
• "false"
• not this one
• not this one