Moral Theology Unit #3 Test

Virtue perfects some dimension of our humanity: this virtue addresses fairness in our choices.

This is our own, personal knowledge of natural law.

This is the term Mr. George coined to describe how philosophies often change or decay over time.

This part of a moral act is the purpose for which we do it.

This was Plato's metaphor for the life of philosophy.

This school of philosophy was founded by Protagoras.

It was in this Diaglogue that Socrates explored what makes for the ideal society.

This school of philosophy was founded by Diogenes.

This philosophy says we should not fear death and should seek pleasure as the goal of life.

This is what logic can grasp of the unchanging law of God.

This is the Greek word for virtue.

True or False: Plato taught that everything in the World of the Forms is an imperfect copy of the things of earth.

Virtue perfects some dimension of our humanity: this virtue addresses our judgment.

The ________________ life is not worth living according to Socrates.

This philosophy says that we should reject the corrupt institutions of society.

This part of a moral act is the action in and of itself.

True or False: St. Thomas Aquinas largely agreed with the moral philosophy of Aristotle.

This philosophy says that if you can rationalize an idea with your words, then it's true for you.

Name it (artist edition)!

Virtue perfects some dimension of our humanity: this virtue addresses our biological, animal desires.

True or False: we described Aristotle as more "empirical" (focused on observation through the senses) compared to Plato.

This school of philosophy was founded by Zeno.

This is the number of "causes" Aristotle described for all exisiting things.

This principle outlines how an action with mixed consequences could still be a morally right act.

We said that Neo's journey out of falsehood and into reality in the Matrix goes with this philosophy.

This is the Greek word for happiness.

This school of philosophy was founded by Epicurus.

This philosopher's method of nearly-endless questioning is a great starting point for the whole study of philosophy.

True or False: all of the philosophers in this unit came from Greece.

True or False: Aristotle and Plato were nearly identical in their metaphysics: the way they saw the world.

This was the Delphic Oracle's two words of advice to Socrates.

This city was the locus of western philosophy in the time period we've been studying.

Name it!

This kind of law emanates from God Himself; and God Himself could not change it.

This part of a moral act is the situational factors at work.

True or False: There were some philosophies we studied that we said had no good or truth in them at all.

This is the kind of law that governs the Church.

This is how Plato described what our souls are doing when we seem to "learn" something.

This is the legislation which governs a society.

Virtue perfects some dimension of our humanity: this virtue addresses our ability to overcome fear.