phil235 final Exam Questions and
Answers Graded A+
What is Self-Appropriation, how does one achieve it, and how does it differ from
knowledge of the world? - Correct answer-- making knowing your own
- strives to know the contents of acts of knowing (experiencing, knowing, judging)
- Self-transcendence is going beyond the self; Lonergan says this is from knowing
and loving
Lonergan: first order definition of being - Correct answer-gives essential qualities
of something, its essence
Lonergan: second order definition of being - Correct answer-defines something by
its relation to something else
- what is known and remains to be known
Lonergan on being: - Correct answer-it is the objective of the pure desire to know
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, Lonergan draws a parallel between knowing and being: - Correct answer-Being
(knowing): potency/the undetermined (experiencing), form (understanding),
act/what is actual/virtually unconditioned (judging)
-Finding the order/form
What are the three aspects of objectivity? - Correct answer-Experiential,
normative, the absolute
o Objectivity: reaching the object in its reality
- Experiential
- Normative: letting the knowing process run its course
- Absolute: related to judgment/reaching the virtually unconditioned;
What is the good as appetite? - Correct answer-the good at the level of
experience/satisfying appetites
What is the good as the good of order? - Correct answer-the intelligible good;
intelligible arranging/form of things
What is natural right? - Correct answer-What is right by nature
o Purpose: to discover some basis for ethics in nature
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Answers Graded A+
What is Self-Appropriation, how does one achieve it, and how does it differ from
knowledge of the world? - Correct answer-- making knowing your own
- strives to know the contents of acts of knowing (experiencing, knowing, judging)
- Self-transcendence is going beyond the self; Lonergan says this is from knowing
and loving
Lonergan: first order definition of being - Correct answer-gives essential qualities
of something, its essence
Lonergan: second order definition of being - Correct answer-defines something by
its relation to something else
- what is known and remains to be known
Lonergan on being: - Correct answer-it is the objective of the pure desire to know
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, Lonergan draws a parallel between knowing and being: - Correct answer-Being
(knowing): potency/the undetermined (experiencing), form (understanding),
act/what is actual/virtually unconditioned (judging)
-Finding the order/form
What are the three aspects of objectivity? - Correct answer-Experiential,
normative, the absolute
o Objectivity: reaching the object in its reality
- Experiential
- Normative: letting the knowing process run its course
- Absolute: related to judgment/reaching the virtually unconditioned;
What is the good as appetite? - Correct answer-the good at the level of
experience/satisfying appetites
What is the good as the good of order? - Correct answer-the intelligible good;
intelligible arranging/form of things
What is natural right? - Correct answer-What is right by nature
o Purpose: to discover some basis for ethics in nature
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