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What is intention - Answers -An intention is a purpose or goal you have that drives some sort of
action. Because our intentions are so crucial in giving humans actions their meaning they also
help us evaluate actions as good or bad.
Describe how our various goals in life are related to each other such that we can get some
coherent sense of a person's character? - Answers -By reflecting on what the goals are in out
lives that drive our actions and what relative importance we attach to each of these purposes,
we obtain a sense of character.
Define Freedom? - Answers -The power rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act to do this
or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one's own responsibility. By free will one who
shapes one's life.
Define object - Answers -Object- of an act is what is actually done. Identifying the object can be
a tricky matter. The trick is to name the action in the most specific way possible without
reference to longer term goals.
Define intentin - Answers -the goal or purpose we have in mind for doing an action.
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, Circumstance - Answers -are features of the situation which although secondary help determine
the morality of an act. Circumstances are crucial in the determining whether the object of a
particular action is a wise way to achieve even a good intention.
What is the difference b/w freedom of indifference and freedom of excellence? - Answers -
Freedom of indifference- As long as your actions are truly taken on as your own then you are
truly free.
Freedom of excellence- Being truly free depends not only on whether the action is your own
although that is necessary too. It also depends on what you choose.
Chapter 3 - Answers -Chapter 3
What is a habit? - Answers -Habits are sort of middle ground b/w a person and the person's
acts. They are more stable qualities of the person that particular actions. Hence habits are more
indicative of who we are now than individual actions and still may change over time.
What steps are given to describe the development of a habit? - Answers -First is to resist and do
what you have to do
2nd would be to repeat this act over and over so it becomes natural to you.
3rd. when the habit becomes such a part of who you are such that it feels weird not doing it.
Give three reasons why its important to focus not just on particular actions but on virtues. -
Answers -1st is reliability
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