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Question

Define one of the four Cardinal Virtues and give a specific example of how that virtue can be practiced.

Human laws which violate natural law are unjust. St. Augustine wrote that "a law that is not just, seems to be no law at all". It is no wonder that in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. cited St. Augustine. Explain why we do not have a moral obligation to obey unjust laws.

Explain what is meant by the "Nuptial meaning of the body" in John Paul II's Theology of the Body.

List and define four kinds of law. Describe the significance of natural law in the moral life.

List and explain the three determinants of a moral act. Give a specific example of a morally good act AND an example of an act that was originally good, but then becomes bad.

Pope John Paul II wrote that "The great drama of human life is surrendering the person I am to the person who I ought to be." Lord Acton said that "True freedom is to be certain that at any time I can do what I should do." Do you find truth in Acton's definition of freedom, and what connection (if any) do you see between being morally good and finding happiness?

Alexis de Tocqueville was a nineteenth Century Frenchman who greatly admired American liberty and democracy. He said that, "Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith." Compare this to the idea of "liberating restrictions" and explain whether you agree or disagree that rules in the moral life can set us free.