Ethics Lesson 1

Question 1

An act which proceeds from the deliberate free will of man
This is only possible from the knowing and freely willing human beings

Answer 1

Human Act

Question 2

What is Actus Humanus?

Answer 2

Human Act

Question 3

These are man’s animal act of sensation (use of the senses) and
appetition (bodily tendencies) done without advertence and the
exercise of free choice

Answer 3

Act of Man

Question 3

These are those that do not find their adequate cause in the will-act but are perfected by the action of mental or bodily powers under orders from the will.

Answer 3

Commanded Acts

Question 3

What is Actus Hominis

Answer 3

Act of Man

Question 3

It is to be noted that an act of man can become a human act by the?

Answer 3

Advertence and consent of the agent

Question 3

Human acts are?

Answer 3

Moral acts

Question 3

These are those that find their adequate cause in the will (the deliberate will) alone.

Answer 3

Elicited Acts

Question 3

This refers to the simple love of anything, the first tendency of the will towards a thing, whether realizable or not

Answer 3

Wish
(every human act begins with the wish to act)

Question 4

3 types of Commanded Acts

Answer 4

1. Internal
2. External
3. Mixed

Question 4

The purposive tendency of the will towards a thing regarded as
realizable, whether the thing is actually done or no

Answer 4

Intention

Question 4

The enjoyment of a thing willed and done, The will’s act of satisfaction in intention fulfilled

Answer 4

Fruition

Question 5

The acceptance by the will of the means necessary to carry out
intention. It is the further intention of doing what is necessary to realize the main intention

Answer 5

Consent

Question 5

The selection by the will of the precise means to be employed in
carrying out an intention

Answer 5

Election

Question 5

The employment by the will of bodily or mental powers or both to carry out its intention by the means elected

Answer 5

Use

Question 6

These are acts effected by bodily powers under command of the will

Answer 6

External

Question 6

These are acts that involve the employment of bodily and mental powers

Answer 6

Mixed

Question 7

Human acts are either in ________ or _________ with the dictates of reason, and this relationship constitutes the morality of human acts

Answer 7

Agreement, Disagreement

Question 7

These are acts done by internal mental powers under command of the will

Answer 7

Internal

Question 8

When human acts are in harmony with the dictates of right reason

Answer 8

Good

Question 9

When human acts are in opposition with the dictates of right reason

Answer 9

Evil

Question 10

When they stand in no positive relation to the dictates of reason

Answer 10

Indifferent

Question 11

These refer to the essential elements or qualities for an act to be human.

Answer 11

Constituents of the Human Acts

Question 12

What are the Constituents of the Human Acts?

Answer 12

1. Knowledge
2. Freedom
3. Voluntariness.

Question 13

A human act proceeds from the deliberate will; it requires

Answer 13

Deliberation.
Deliberation means advertence, or knowledge in intellect of what one is about and what this means. Deliberation means knowledge.

Question 14

Thus, no human act is possible without knowledge.

Answer 14

Might appear in T/F

Question 15

A human act is an act determined (elicited or commanded) by the will and by nothing else
It is an act that is under control of the will, an act that the will can do or leave undone.

Answer 15

Freedom

Question 16

This simply means it must be a will-act. This is to say that there must be both knowledge and freedom in the agent or the doer of the action

Answer 16

Voluntariness