Questions to accompany:  CCC, paragraph #’s 1730-1775; Compendium #363-371; Living the Good Life pp. 13-19, 37-51, 149-176.

1. What is "a" teologicial view of life"? (LGL). By extension, what would be a teleogical understanding of a human faculty – for example, the faculty of free choice?

 

2. What is the difference between "freedom from" and "freedom for" (LGL). Is authentic human freedom and/or authentic Christian freedom "freedom from" or "freedom for." Explain.

 

3. What is freedom? What is the essential difference between the Christian view of freedom and the secular understanding of freedom in our American culture?

 

4. What is the relationship between freedom and moral responsibility?

 

5. Can one person know for certain how free another person is? Explain.

6. Can a person know for certain how free he himself is?

 

7. What do the answers to #s 4 and 5 mean about our ability to judge the moral culpability of another or even to be 100% sure of ourselves?

 

8. What is an indirectly voluntary act? Is a person morally responsible for indirectly voluntary acts?

 

9. Why does a human person have the right to exercise his freedom?

 

10. Could we attain the end that God wills for us if we were not free? Why or why not?

 

11. What is the difference between autonomy and true freedom?

 

12. Consider the following two statement "we are what we do" and "we become what we most consistently do." In your view are they true or false?