List what the text offers as "three types of knowing." Give a concrete example of each from the reading. Be able to offer examples of this from your life. What is the "greatest obstacle to knowledge from authority?" Do you agree? Why is an open mind a terrible risk?
List and explain the "five common thinking errors from the text." Give an example of each from your experience.
List and explain the "five steps to critical thinking."
List and explain what the text offers as the "process of knowing."
Give the four charactersitics of biblical faith from the freshman text. These are listed on pg. 87 in the Readings Book. Be able to show how the major figures in the Bible (Abraham, Moses, David, Jesus, Peter) does or does not meet each criteria. Also be able to apply this another histoircal figure, to a literary character, and to yourself.
Give the Catholic definition of faith. List its seven major characterstics. In The Mission which of the major characters best demonstrates each?
What are three limitations of the scientific method?
List and understand Zanzig's major negative societal values from the freshman text.
Be able to explain why Fr. Kavanaugh worries that advertising is shaping our cultural values, our images of what it means to a person, of what hapiness is all about.
Summarize the message of "The Merchants of Cool" about the meaning of life, about morality, about reason, about what it means to be human. Does it support what Kavanagu said twenty years ago?
Explain what is meant by "The Power of Dehumanization." Is this a reality in your life? Explain.
Summarize "knowledge of God via the human person." Be able to describe each.
argument from religious experience
argument from conscience
argument from natural law
Images of faith: The Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son, Jesus. Cite five passages in which Jesus shows us what faith/Faith is. He may do this by words or actions.
Give three major ideas from William O'Malley's articles: "Understanding Jesus."
Summarize what Jesus shows us in his life and teachings about God, about the meaning of life, about reason, about morality, and about what it means to be human.
Which steps did he follow in your chosen method of moral decision making--and which did he leave out?
What would you have done?
What would you do if that happened to you here and now and you were drafted to go to Iraq?
Obligations and Formation of the Just War Theory.
Three types of obligations: how does just war thinking flow from this?
"jus ad bellum"
"jus in bello"
Be able to apply these in concrete instances, like WWII or Vietnam or the recent U.S.-Iraq wars.
"Conscientious objectors" and "selective conscientious objectors"
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on just war theory. Ethics Update, as usual, is a great resource on Ethics of War, Peace, & Terrorism
Bush' just war thinking as applied to the Gulf War
Video "Remember My Lai"
Dr. Martin Luther King'sLetter 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.
Describe the context of the letter. When and where was it written? To whom? Why did King write it?
"In any nonviolent campaigh, there are four basic steps.: List these.
What is the 'tension" Dr. King, and he says Socrates, sought to create? What is its purpose?
King quotes some famous saying from some very prominent people.
Reinhold Niebuhr reminded us that ______tend to be more immoral than _______.
Paul Tillich said that sin is _________________________________________.
T. S. Eliot said "The lasat temptation is the greatest treason: _______________.
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:
What does he mean when he says there are two kinds of laws? Explain the difference. Give some concrete examples of each kind of laws.
What are Dr. King's "two honest confessions"?
What does the work Zeitgeist mean? It is a great, important philosophical/political word.
Give two other major ideas you got from this letter OR Give two questions you'd ask Dr. King if he were here.