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Beatitude
(also called Happiness, Felicity, and Flourishing).— 1. The state of perfection of an intelligent being. 2. A state of activity in which the natural desires of an intelligent being are satisfied. 3. C...
Common Good
The good pursued by a society and which, in some respect, perfects it. Considered from a causal perspective, the common good is a final cause. The common good is an end that is qualitatively distinct...
Conscience
The intellectual act or capacity to make a judgment about the morality of an act.
Consequentialism
A system of moral analysis according to which the consequences of actions determine whether the actions are good or bad. Consequentialism and utilitarianism share the same basic principles of analysi...
Courage
(also called Bravery and Fortitude).— The moral and cardinal virtue by which one is disposed to face danger or difficulty when doing so is judged to be warranted by right reason, thereby introducing t...
Deontology
A system of moral analysis that emphasizes the principles that govern actions over the consequences of the actions. Today it is especially associated with the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant accordi...
Economics
1. Classical and Scholastic usage. The term that names the division of moral philosophy that studies the nature, principles, and structures of the family. The term is seldom used in this sense today....
Eudaimonism
A system of moral analysis according to which one’s actions are good or bad to the extent that they lead to or away from happiness, with happiness being understood as perfected activity in accord with...
Family
(also called Domestic Society or Household).— The natural society constituted by a father, mother, and children. In the order of nature, the family exists as an imperfect society that must be incorpo...
Finis Operantis
Latin term that can be translated as “the end of the doer.” It is the intention or purpose that one has in performing some action.

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