Justice and Truth, Bolich - Amelia C.

1. Thou shall not steal. 
1. Keeping something that someone lends to you.
2. Business Fraud and Tax Fraud.
3. Damaging private property.
4. Illegally downloading music/movies.
5. Cheating.
6. Plagiarism. 
2. Thou shall not bear false witness.
1. Lying
2. Duplicity-misleading.
3. Dissimulation - hiding something by pretense.
4. Hypocrisy
5. Detraction
6. Calumny
7. Flattery
8. Complaisance
3. Thou shall Not covet Thy Neighbors Goods.
1. Greed
2. Avarice
3. Envy

Justice and Truth Day 3, Bolich - Amelia C.

1. Justice - Giving to another that which is rightfully owed.
2. Justice is portrayed by scales - when the women are blindfolded they are biased, they have opinions.
3. Authentic Justice is a virtue, it's a good habit. The more we are virtuous the freer we are. This makes it easier to make decisions.
4. Basics of the catholic basic doctrine ( Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church):
1. It takes Christ's teachings and applies them.
2. Actively work for the highest good.
5. The Beatitudes have been applied to the modern world.
6. Poor in spirit, mourn, meek, hunger and thirst for ritchesness, merciful, pure of heart, peacemaker.
7. Faith Hope and Love are endowed by God himself.
8. Charity and Justice are at the heart of catholic charity.
9. Four primary principles of justice: Human Dignity, Common Good, Subsidiarity, Solidarity.
10. Solidarity, one recognizes that human beings are one big family. 
11. Secondary Principles - Universal Destination of Goods, Right to Private Property, Call to Participation. 
1. Everyone has the right to what the earth gives to us equally. 
2. One has the right to own what they have worked for.
12. The option for the poor and vulnerable is the most basic and important form of justice.
13. Care for Gods creation. 
14. Corporal Works of Mercy - Feed Hungary, Drink to Thirsty, Cloth Naked, Shelter Homeless, Visit Sick, Visit Prison, Bury Dead.

Justice and Truth Day 2, Bolich - Amelia C.

1. To be a citizen of Rome is a big deal, one can't touch you without the Kings permission. 
2. But, one can loose his rights by not voting, by not paying taxes, etc... To not fulfill your obligations was a big deal.
3. Aquinas says that rights can not be separated from justice and responsibility.
4. Virtue requires self mastery.
5. The proper understanding of laws - "To make man good", Aquinas.
6. The law is supposed to teach you virtue, its the final stronghold.
7. If one gets desensitized to stealing the law would be the last resort to teach that stealing is good.
8. The law is already demanding the standard that are in place via virtue.
9. Because not everyone was virtues we have laws.
10. The government exists for you, for the sake of you, if you were not here the government were not be here.
11. We got our current understanding of rights from Locke and Hobbes. 
12. This is called the enlightenment period, they basically said to forget everything.
13. Our founding fathers were a fan of them.
14. They said that freedom was unbounded and unlimited, he said that the week die because of the freedom of the powerful. Rights are claims that we make against others- I want it I have the right to it.  - Hobbes 
15. The father of liberalism. The rights are based of radical autonomy of people. Unrestrained freedom is the basics of rights. Unbridled freedom is the utmost importance. - Locke
16. Our constitution was written based on this understanding of freedom - and its flawed. 
17. Natural Law determines your rights, something outside of the human body, one does not determine there rights.
18. Human desire is the foundation of rights, I deride what I owe - modern and post modern thought. 
19. If one is uneducated they do not have the right to an opinion. 
20. Natural Law + Human Dignity + Rights + Responsibility = Justice
21. Justice - giving that which is owed or rightfully due.

Justice and Truth, Bolich - Amelia C.

1. Right- Goods or actions to other persons.
2. A right in America is based on entitlement.
3. The concept of "rights" implies social and moral contracts.
4. A right is an obligation, Rights proceed Justice.
5. The concept of a Right is theological by nature.
6. Rights don't come from the constitution but from something higher.
7. Aquinas places Justice in the realm of virtues.
8. Cardinal virtues are acquired by doing them.
9. Before one can treat one justly they must have a proper understanding of human dignity - proper Anthropology.
10. Justice and human dignity don't have to do with a personal view of one.
11. Two Truths - All human life is Sacred, All humans are equal in dignity --> Churches teachings on the human person. NON - NEGOTIONALBLE 
12. Justice - That is which is owed to one.
13. Inherent Value - Significance that exists because of what it is. Humans have significance because of what we are.