1
Q
Moral agent
A
person involved in making an ethical decision
2
Q
Beatific vision
A
Aquinas’ belief on what a human’s telos was
3
Q
Casuistry
A
Latin ‘casus’ meaning case
The catholic manuals are complications of casuistry
4
Q
Consequentialism
A
An action’s rightness or wrongness is based of its consequence (Not intention)
5
Q
Intrinsic good
A
Something that is ethically good in itself
6
Q
Synderesis rule
A
An innate principle in a person’s moral conscience which directs the agent to do good and restrain from evil
7
Q
Telos
A
purpose or end goal
8
Q
Virtue
A
A quality in a person held to be of moral value
