Human Goods



Intrinsic Human Goods

Indicate which human goods are being pursued in the following.

1. Felix decides to fix his car on a Saturday morning just because he enjoys doing it.

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2. Michelle beats Maria in a game of chess.

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3. After throwing the chess pieces on the floor in anger, Maria feels guilty and apologizes.

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4. Our class asks a priest to say Mass for us.

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5. Nadir rushes Kristen to the hospital after she complains of severe abdominal pains.

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6. Donna climbs a mountain one fall morning just to see the sunrise.

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7. On her 40th birthday, Jim enrols in a philosophy course at the U of T.

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8. Jeff goes to Confession for his dirty thoughts.

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9. Poncho Blubbergut decides he is going to get control over his eating disorder. He joins Fatso's Anonymous.

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10. Rose asks a speculative question.

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11. Delon visits the Art Museum.

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12. Melissa “does her tomatoes” because she just loves being an Italian.

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Indicate which human good is being directly attacked (or neglected, impeded, etc.,.) in the following.

1. A cop takes a criminal in handcuffs out to a field and shoots him dead.

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2. A combatant shoots a non-combatant during a war.

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3. A person commits adultery.

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4. A married person fantasizes about having an affair with someone not his/her spouse.

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5. A person refuses to forgive.

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6. A student asks the teacher to go to the washroom, but really intends to go to the Cafeteria to buy something. -

7. A person chooses to eat only high fat junk food, because it tastes good.

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8. A person who is a workaholic and makes no time in his life for the contemplation of the highest things.

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9. A person never bothers to control his passions, but indulges always.

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10. A person spreads a rumour about someone, just because she is bored and needs excitement.

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11. A person engages in fraud (that will hurt hundreds of employees in the long run) because he envisions all sorts of good things for himself.

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12. A person who thinks it is below him to grovel on his knees before a supposed deity to petition favors.

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13. A married couple considers having sex, realizes that a child would result, so they choose to take steps to prevent that child from becoming an actual baby (i.e., the pill), and then engages in the sexual act.

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14. A person schemes and lies in order to prevent two people from getting to know one another.

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15. A person acts contrary to reason.

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