Theology Ethics Test Terms
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- moral relativism
- no moral rules that apply to all cultures or all people in one culture and that no country or person should "impose"their moral rules on any other culture or person.
- subjective
- it is only the best for a person if that person things it is best
- objective
- to exsist or to be true independently of anyone's opinion
- vegetative
- grow, respiration, hydration, nutrition, reproduction
- appetitive
- move, desires, emotion-fear, social, raise young
- rational
- able to think, will-appetite choosing, to be human is to have a rational soul enforming a body
- eudaimonia
- happiness ---> human flourishing
- virtue
- state of character that allows one to judge with ones rational part the appropriate way to ACT and FEEL with respect to a moral choice
- character
- fairly stable set of attitudes, dispostions and opinions that result in fairly stable ways of acting
- vicious
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bad actions and difficult circumstances that their rational part is no longer able to judge right from wrong
-do not struggle with emotions or desires, actively do the wrong thing without much remorse - incontinent
- overwhelming weakness towards pleasure
- cultural relativisim
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- nature
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- soul
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- telos
- purpose of goal or end, determined by one's nature
- human flourishing
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- continent
- ward off the desire for too much pleasure
- soft
- overwhelming aversion to pain
- enduring
- withstand fear or painful emotions in difficult situations
- evil
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absence of good
ex-failing to achieve ones telos - good
- to achieve one's goal