3RD QTR, Lesson 3: The power to overcome our weakness Flashcards
It is the goodness or badness or rightness and wrongness of human act.
Morality
Acts of Man
These are the actions done under the circumstances of ignorance, passion, fear, violence, and habits.
What are the modifiers of Human Act?
Ignorance, Fear, Violence, Habit, and Concupiscence
What is Ignorance?
It is the lack or absence of knowledge in a person capable of knowing a certain thing or things.
It is the type of ignorance which cannot be dispelled by ordinary diligence. It eliminates moral responsibility or culpability.
Invincible Ignorance
Vincible Ignorance
It is the type of ignorance which can and should be dispelled. It does not eliminates culpability but lessens it.
What are the kinds of Vincible Ignorance?
- Simple Vincible Ignorance
- Crass or Supine Ignorance
- Affected Ignorance
It is when one uses some, but not enough diligence in an effort to remove ignorance. One performs an objectively wrong act because of ________ ignorance. Action is culpable. However, the culpability is lessened by the presence of that ignorance
Simple Vincible Ignorance
Crass or Supine Ignorance
It is a kind of ignorance which though not directly willed, but left wholly undisturbed because of lack of effort. Lessens the culpability of an act. This type of ignorance lessens the imputability of an act. Still, it makes one gravely culpable if it concerns a matter of grave importance.
Imputability of Human Act
The person performing an act is liable of such acts.
It is the kind of ignorance that is deliberately fostered in order to avoid any obligation that knowledge might bring light.
Affected Ignorance
Fear
A mental agitation of disturbance brought about by the apprehension of some present or imminent danger.
What are the two types of fear?
- Grave Fear
- Slight Fear
It is aroused by the presence of danger that is regarded by most people as serious.
Grave Fear
Slight Fear
It is aroused by a danger that is not serious
