Chapter 2 - Social Doctrine

Charity is at the heart of law since from its earliest days human society has always been concerned with charity

• TRUE

• FALSE

Of the four Cardinal Virtues, only fortitude is necessarily social.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Justice precedes rights, ensuring that they are properly ordered and exercised.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Commutative justice considers the cultural, political, and economic aspects of the human community with particular concern for structural problems and solutions.

• TRUE

• FALSE

When rights are dependent upon human decisions, they can be changed easily, multiplied to the point of meaninglessness, put aside, and abolished readily.

• TRUE

• FALSE

___________comes into play in the exercise of every other virtue, which is why it is called one of the “hinge” virtues

Justice is a social virtue, but it always begins with a(n) ____________act.

Concerned not directly with the rights of individual persons, _____________justice is

directed toward the common good of society.

• Legal

• commutative

• social

• distributive

The _______________(2 words), present in the heart of every human being and established by reason, expresses the dignity of the person and determines the basis for his or her fundamental rights and duties.

Since most external acts have some social consequences, almost every act of virtue or vice will involve justice or __________(its opposite) .