Choose any four of the eleven questions listed below. Questions 6 through 11 are intended to solicit thoughtful and reasoned responses. Write in the form of a 3-4 page, typed, SINGLE SPACED
1. Discuss the three qualities of a human act, or human conduct: knowledge;
voluntariness; and freedom. (Chapter 5)
2. Discuss the meaning of morality in terms of a) the general definition of
morality, b) the distinction between the terms moral and immoral,
c) subjective morality, d) objective morality, e) conventional or extrinsic morality, and f) natural or intrinsic morality. (Chapter 7)
3. Law in the proper sense is a rule and measure of acts directing them to their
proper ends. Discuss the two kinds of necessity which law imposes on the beings it directs. (Chapter 10)
4. Discuss the four levels in man’s knowledge of the natural law. (Chapter 11)
5. Discuss the definition, meaning and function of conscience. (Chapter 13)
6. What does it mean to say that the human being is both material and immaterial?
7. Why does the materialist reject freedom?
8. What are the consequences of the denial of freedom in the human?
9. Explain why the human person has a right to the truth.
10. Is good and evil something that a person can define for himself, or is it something objective that a person must come to know?
11. Natural law tells us that duties or obligations are the flip side of rights. What do you think society would be like if its citizens only subscribe to their rights and ignored their obligations?