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| a life of, on balance, more pleasure than pain (irrespective of the source and quality of the pleasure and pain). |
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| enduring delight or joy (to appropriate degrees) in genuinely good things. |
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| the life in which you get what you (think you) want (a life characterized by happiness(1) ). |
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| the life of delight and joy in genuine morality (a life characterized by happiness(2) ). |
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| spirituality, the having and living out of desires in life. |
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| the view that morality is a set of obligations that when followed actually are what we really want. |
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| the view that morality is a set of externally imposed obligations that go against what we really want (namely the freedom to do and get whatever want) in order to protect us from each other. |
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| Morality in the descriptive sense |
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| an identifiable way to lives ones life, evident in the choices that we make. (all people have some identifiable ways of living their lives). |
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| Morality in the normative sense |
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| all people live the way they should live their lives. |
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| a sort of principal that guides our actions. |
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| influences that shape how we live our lives, either formally or informally. |
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| the goal or purpose toward which we direct ourselves. |
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| goal-directed action; the capacity we have by which we understand and internalize our actions. |
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| a person is free when unconstrained with respect to their choices. |
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| a person is truly free when they act toward genuine human happiness. |
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| attraction or repulsion toward or away from something. |
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| human ability to intend something, and to move oneself towards that something. |
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| our capacity to grasp or 'get' or know anything. |
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| the changes we make in the world around us as a result of our actions. |
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| the changes we make in the world around us as a result of our actions. |
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| features of the situation which, though secondary, help determine the morality of an act. |
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| Habit (and disposition, inclination) |
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| an abiding quality a person has that characterizes who he is; a stable characteristic to intend and to act in regular ways. |
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| a good habit; the habit of intending and acting in a good manner. |
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| a bad habit; the habit of intending and acting in a bad manner |
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| a virtue whose activities, or objects, all concern God directly. |
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| the group of virtues concerning inner worldly activities. |
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| the virtue that inclines us to good interactions and relationships with others. |
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| the virtue of well-ordered desires for pleasures. |
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| the virtue that enables us to face difficulty well. |
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| the virtue to choose well, or doing practical decision-making well. |
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| the norms or guidelines that dictate how to do inner worldly activities well. |
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| a rule that can never be violated by a virtuous person. |
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| the virtue of desiring and enjoying pleasures well and intending the right thing. |
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| Passion (emotion/feeling) |
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| an aversion or longing for something; consistently identifiable responses to certain types of stimuli that prompt us towards certain types of actions (even if we restrain from the action). |
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| the habit of desiring the wrong thing and intending the wrong thing, though with an awareness that it's in fact wrong. |
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| the habit of desiring the wrong thing, but being able to control oneself and intend the right thing. |
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| the habit of desiring and intending the wrong thing, and delighting in it. |
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| a process of remaining in a situation which results in changes in ones emotional response. |
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| an ease of action, not present in the person who acts on rational deliberation alone. |
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| the habit of seeing rightly the way things really are, and then successfully employing that truthful vision to act rightly. |
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| the virtue of remembering well, or remembering truthfully and successfully bringing to bear truthful memories on present actions. |
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| the virtue of being receptive of guidance from others. |
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| the virtue of quickly sizing up unexpected situations and acting well to achieve goals. |
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| deliberating endlessly over what to do, but never letting such deliberation translate into action. |
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| acting quickly but without adequately attending to the situation. thus often failing to attain a truthful grasp of the situation to guide their actions. |
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| a sincere judgment about what one things is genuinely right or wrong. |
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| the general capacity to judge between right and wrong. |
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| the view that there are objectively right and wrong things to do regardless of whether or not anyone realizes it. |
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| a sincere judgement that something is good (or bad) which in fact it is not. |
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| ignorance for which one is not held accountable because no matter what the person did, they genuinely had no way of knowing anything differently. |
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| ignorance for which one is help accountable because the ignorance is a result of ones own poor action. |
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| the virtue of rightly relating to others where 'rightly relating' refers to the proper or true order of things (genuine peace, harmony); the virtue of giving others their due where giving others their due facilitates flourishing peace. |
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| the proper order of things, the way things were meant to be. Marked by peace or harmony. |
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| to each his due (any act of justice gives another what they deserve.) |
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| the sum totally of social conditions which allow people either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more full and easily. |
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| natural (justice is natural) |
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| what is best for a person. |
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| the virtue of facing obstacles, difficulties, or hardship well by doggedly pursuing the most important goods in life, even in the face of losing important but lesser goods. |
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| a person who appreciates the goodness of whatever they are willing to sacrifices "it's not the injury but the cause." |
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| being truly in a situation where one is threatened but does not experience fear, thus failing to accurately perceive the situation. |
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| realizing the full value of what may be lost, and the magnitude of the present danger, but does not stand fast and endure in the face of the threat. |
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| the part of fortitude in which the difficulty at hand is faced well by seeking to eliminate or remove it. |
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| hanging in there in the face of hardship. |
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| having one of the cardinal virtues reuires having the other three cardinal virtues. |
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| the ability to not be overcome with sorrow while facing difficulties. |
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| the view that all of reality can be reduced to material things. |
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| a way of doing something. |
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| clinging to something as true even in the absence of the certitude of clear sight. |
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| the process or habit of believing. |
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| what is actually believed. |
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| the habit or disposition of believing true things about God and God's relationship to the world, in particular to humanity. |
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| any failure to conform to the mortal law of God in act, attitude, or nature. / an offense against reason, truth, and right conscience; it is a failure in genuine love for God and neighbor caused by a perverse attachment to certain goods. it wounds the nature of man and injures human solidarity. |
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| an inordinate fixation on ones life and desires, putting ones self first. |
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| sins that rupture ones relationship with God. This is a very serious sin that is done knowingly, and with full consent. |
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| sins that strain our relationship with God. |
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| delight in the misfortune of another, and/or mourning the good fortune of another. |
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| disordered arousal at the perception of injustice accompanied by a disordered desire to right the perception of injustice accompanied by a disordered desire to right the perceived injustice. |
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| spiritual laziness or inattention to the higher things in life. |
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| any inordinate desire or attachment to material goods. |
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| any inordinate desire or attachment to eating and drinking. |
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| any inordinate desire or attachment to sexual activity. |
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| the sin of living as if no matter how one lives in this life, God will indeed welcome one to the union with Him that constitutes complete fulfillment. |
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| the belief that the eternal happiness that union with God constitutes is not truly available. |
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| a definitive separation from God |
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| death is a separation of soul and body. / a persons estrangement from God. |
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| on the last day, Christ will come and all persons will rise and be united with their bodies. |
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| into flesh; the distinctive sign of Christian faith. |
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| occurs when someone gives up something for someone else. |
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| the study of who Jesus is. |
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| the habit or disposition of loving God for God's own sake above all else, and all others in God. |
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| joined to someone else based upon a common cause |
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| joined to someone else based upon a common pleasure. |
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| based on virtue or goodness of another (fullest sense). |
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| giving shape to all the acts of the virtues by directing them toward the ultimate goal of union with God. |
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| family relations, romantic loves. |
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| help given by God to know and to live a virtuous life aimed at union with God |
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| virtues that are given to us by God and are only possibly by the grace of God. |
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| one performs inner worldly acts well with an eye toward how they contribute to human happiness. |
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| concern inner worldly activities but incline us to do inner worldly activities well in the larger perspective of our supernatural destiny. |
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| complete natural happiness is only possibly for those who are assisted by God's grace. |
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