Junior Morality 2005 Exam Preview


From the first semester please remember: Dr. Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail
How would Dr King answer these two T/F answer and why?
� T/F What is legal is always moral.
� T/F At times it may be moral, to break the law; it may even be required of a good person.
  1. Describe the context of the letter. When and where was it written? To whom? Why did King write it?
  2. "In any nonviolent campaigh, there are four basic steps.: List these.
  3. What is the 'tension" Dr. King, and he says Socrates, sought to create? What is its purpose?
  4. King quotes some famous saying from some very prominent people.
  5. How does Dr. King answer the question "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying other?" This is a complicated answer. Please know and understand it. Key points should include:
  6. What are Dr. King's "two honest confessions"?
  7. What does the work Zeitgeist mean? It is a great, important philosophical/political word.
  8. Give two other major ideas you got from this letter OR Give two questions you'd ask Dr. King if he were here.

Definition/description of Morality from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Catholic Moral Teaching


from the Catechism Catechism section on morality: Part III, section 1: Man's Vocation in the Spirit. Worksheet: The Catechism on Moraltiy John Paul II's major encycle on Catholic Christian morality is Veritatis Splendor "The Splendor of Truth."

article: Calvin and Hobbes and John Paul: The Morality Debate by James Q. Wilson, NY Times, November 26, 1993

Key Teachings of Jesus


Fr. Knapp's handout
  • Explain the Catholic idea of conscience as both a power and a process.
  • Be able to list, explain well and apply at least one method of moral decision
    • L-I-S-T-E-N method
    • O-P-T-I-O-N method
    • 8 step method

"The Ten Building Blocks of Catholic Social Teaching"
America magazine, 10/31/98.

Genocide Questions

Reinhold Neibuhr: Moral Man, Immoral Society from Speaking of Faith.

The Ethics of Jesus The Sermon on the Mount, other key morality teachings in the Gospels from Jesus, O'Malley's The Moral Practice of Jesus

Two other moral systems: Buddha and Confucius. readings from Huston Smith's The Religions of Man

End of the 3Q videos:

Fourth Quarter


"Just War" Click here for just war worksheet.

Tim O'Brien's "On the Rainy River" Obligations and Formation of the Just War Theory. Be able to apply these in concrete instances, like WWII or Vietnam or the recent U.S.-Iraq wars. Bush' just war thinking as applied to the Gulf War Video "Remember My Lai"

Other sources recomemended on My Lai Great video about Vietnam: Fog of War

Two heroes whose life illustrates key ideas from the first semester
Medical Ethics.

Business Ethics
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