Friday Test_28

Question 1

What actually affects sin?

Answer 1

free choice of will

Question 2

What are occasions of sin?

Answer 2

external circumstances-persons, places or things-which tempt one to sin

Question 3

What are the types of occasions of sin?

Answer 3

proximate or remote, necessary or free

Question 4

What are internal sins?

Answer 4

completed within heart of man w/o being revealed externally

Question 5

What are the three internal sins?

Answer 5

deliberate pleasure, sinful joy, evil desire

Question 6

What is deliberate pleasure?

Answer 6

sinful complaceny taken in an evil object presented to man by his imagination but which is not accompanied by any desire for the object?

Question 7

Why is deliberate pleasure used?

Answer 7

will freely lingers in this evil complaceny even though it’s only momentary

Question 8

When is complaceny attributed to deliberate pleasure?

Answer 8

only in the evil object presented by the imagnination

Question 9

What is “complaceny unaccompanied by desire?

Answer 9

because if desire is present then complaceny assmes an additional moral evil

Question 10

What are the four objects man may take pleasure?

Answer 10

external act itself (e.g. fornification), external act as protrayed by the imagination (e.g. not an act of fornication that has taken place already or one which is about to take place but the representation of the act existing in the imagination), the skillful and subtle way an act is performed (e.g. picking pockets), the knowledge that man posseses evil acts (e.g. moralist may take pleasure in being to show the intrinsic evil of fornication)

Question 11

What is the first form of pleasure?

Answer 11

sin itself present in the external act

Question 12

What is the second form of pleasure?

Answer 12

deliberate pleasure of object and is the same evil character as the act which forms its object

Question 13

What is the third form of pleasure?

Answer 13

not itself evil, though often dangers

Question 14

What is the fourth form of pleasure?

Answer 14

lawful, even praiseworthy, if right intention

Question 15

What is the principle regarding deliberate pleasure (DP)?

Answer 15

to take DP in an object of the imagnination which is gravely sinful is itself a mortal sin whose species is determined by the object itself and circumstances

Question 16

Why is such a DP a mortal sin?

Answer 16

an evil imagingation and its evil object possess from the moral aspect the same essential wickedness, since the external act doesn’t increase morality e.g. delight in adultery differnt than delight in incest

Question 17

What is sinful joy?

Answer 17

deliberate complacency in something evil done by oneself or others

Question 18

What does sinful joy consist of?

Answer 18

approval of sin already committed and therefore has the same malice as the sin itself

Question 19

What is evil desire?

Answer 19

deliberate complacence in some sin not yet committed, or the longing to do something morally evil

Question 20

When is evil desire efficacious?

Answer 20

represents a firm and genuine resolve to commit sin

Question 21

What is evil desire inefficacious?

Answer 21

it is a wish unaccompanied by a firm resolve

Question 22

Is an efficious desire to commit an evil act the same species and malice as the external act which forms its object?

Answer 22

yes

Question 23

Why is an efficacious desire to commit an evil act the same species and malice as the external act which forms its object?

Answer 23

enitre malice of a human act is based on the evil will of man, and the external act itself does not add new morality

Question 24

Why is an inefficacious(conditional) desire to commit some evil always detestable?

Answer 24

imagination is incited and time is wasted