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Morality Midterm
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36
Religious Studies
11th Grade
10/26/2009

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A good habit, an inner readiness to accomplish moral good
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virtue
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a bad habit, an inner readiness to accomplish moral evil
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vice
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internal, consistent honesty; applying the same standard/criteria in similar situations
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integrity
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Synonym for morality but without god in the equation
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Ethics
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Standards of proper behavior for different careers, lawyers, doctors.
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professional ethics
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Attitude of self-absorption, vanity, "me first"
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Narcissism
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Philosophy/value that says happiness is found in accumulating possessions
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materialism
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A false clue/trail that introduces an irrelevant topic into a discussion in order to divert attention grom the orignal topic
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red herring
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My opinion; a secondary truth that has value to the extent it conforms as closeley as possible to the facts
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Subjectice truth
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Primary truth; true whether you agree with it or not; whether you are aware of it or not
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Objective truth
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True or false: Subjective truth can change objective truth cannot
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true
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True or false: Unethical behavior would be wrong behavior
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True
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True or false: All moralities are objectively life-giving
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False
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True or false: Morally good people have made mistakes and learned from them
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True
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True or False: Growing morally means making no mistakes
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False
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True or False: The Golden Rule would be an example of narcissistic behavior
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False
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True or False: any action identified as normal (most people engage in this behavior) and naturally is morally good.
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False
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True or false: Evil-doing is often the product of a choice a person thought was good
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True
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True or False: Every individual/culture has a moality (values that guide their choices), just not necessarily a Christian morality
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True
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Jesus said, "I have come that you may have ___ and have it abundantly."
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life
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Subtle peer pressure would be:
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hidden
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Once concept that distingushes Christianity from other moraliities is:
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the necessity of God's grace for salvation
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A human act, as distinguished from the act of a human, requires:
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intellect and will
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Objective truth is always:
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the same
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To say that Truth is objective means
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it is absolute and unchanging
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Learning from our mistakes
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neither of these
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Catholic moral teaching professes
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All of these
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The rticle "It's all about me: Popular culture sinks even deeper into narcissism." indicates
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all of these
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In The Mystery Beast of Ostergeest the first blind man believes the beast is a wall is:
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Subjective truth
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In The Mystery Beast of Ostergeest what could the blind men have done to find the objectives truth?
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any or all of these
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God imprinted in is the natural law to use our intellect and will to point us toward the good but we also need revelation because
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Our nature is wounded by sin
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Objective truth reveals:
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an absolute, a refrence point
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God gave humans far-reaching freedom, but not unlimited feedom.
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True
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The serpent tells Adam and Eve that the reason they can't eat of the fruit of the tree of knoledge of good and evil is because if they do they will:
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be like God
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Animal or human: More a slave of natural instincts and DNA
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Animal
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Animal or human: Has free will
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Human
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