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“Every agent or a man who performs an act acts for the sake of an end which is good. The reality under the shadow good is called happiness.

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Socratic Dictum

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five key words are
important and essential for happiness

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MAN – ACT – END – GOOD – HAPPINESS

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GOOD ACT plus GOOD END =

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HAPPINESS

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Ethical Formula of Happiness:

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GOOD ACT plus GOOD END = HAPPINESS

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what equals happiness

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GOOD ACT plus GOOD END

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2 ways of ethics

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Normative science
Practical science

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deals with laws & norms in our study

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Normative science

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to be put to practice

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Practical science

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Three truths pre- supposed in our study of ethics:

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Man’s freedom
Immortality of the soul
God’s existence

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it meas man self-determining and knows how to direct his act to the goals of his choice.

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Man’s freedom

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meaning the soul continuous to exist even when separated from the
body

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Immortality of the soul

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meaning He is the author of Natural Moral Law, law serves as the foundation of Ethics.

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God’s existence

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What are the basis of ethics?

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basis of good and evil

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3 basis which is Imply Subjectively

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1.Man’s goal in life.
2.Man’s belief.
3.Man’s personal perceptions.

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2 basis that is Imply Objectively:

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Human Nature
Natural Moral Law

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meaning, an act is good if it brings goodness to man, otherwise, it’s evil.

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Human Nature

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meaning, an act is good if it is conformity with the NML, otherwise, it’s evil

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Natural Moral Law

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18
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2 basis of ethics

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Human Nature
Natural Moral Law

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who stated Man is composed of body and soul.

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PLATO

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who stated Man is a rational animal

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ARISTOTLE

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who said man is an individual substance with a rational nature.

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BOETHIUS

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who said Man is created being made to know and to love God and others.

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ST. THOMAS AQUINAS

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(state of being a person separate from other people)

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Man’s Individual Nature

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controlled by our brain

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Body

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(shared by both plants and brutes)
Vegetative Powers
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it is when we eat food and we are nourished by the food we had eaten
Nutrition
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it is when we increase in size
Growth
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it is when capacity to generate new individuals under the same specie.
Reproduction
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it is (shared by brutes )
Sense Powers
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it is the source of our knowledge
Sense Knowledge(
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organic faculties often known as windows of our soul (sight, hearing, smell, taste & touch)
External Senses
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organic faculties controlled by our brain
Internal Senses
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consciousness or awareness, coordinating sense since it grasps the object of external sense & put these objects into a single perception.
Central Sense
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it retains and archives the object of the central sense, fabricates objects even if it is absent in the form of images.
Imagination
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it recalls images or objects as past
Memory
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3 Types of memory.
Sentient memory Intellectual memory Instinct
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(body) – recalls images
Sentient memory
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(soul) – recalls ideas
Intellectual memory
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It gives judgement to make us tend towards something good, pleasurable & useful or away from something evil, painful and non-useful.
Instinct
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(Latin: ad petere – to tend towards)- inclination or power to tend towards a goal or away from it.
-Appetite
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he has control over his natural inclinations.
man
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inclination to objects or goals w/c constitute their proper perfection even w/o knowledge.
Natural appetite-
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inclination to objects or goals as a result of knowledge to those objects or goals.
Elicited appetite-
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2 Kinds of Elicited Appetite:
Intellectual Appetite Sense Appetite
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inclination to objects or goals known thru the intellect.
Intellectual Appetite
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inclination to objects or goals known as dependent to sense knowledge.
Sense Appetite
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The inclination of the Sense Appetite is an
internal inclination
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The ACT of liking tending towards) disliking (away from) is the work of
Emotion
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it gives judgement to tend towards or away from.
instinct
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is a bodily manifestation w/c always accompanies with emotions or passions.
Body Resonance
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4 Characteristics Of Emotions:
not cognitive acts very subjective requires sense of knowledge. Nothing is wiled unless known
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To control our emotions, we must first control our
senses
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2 Classifications of emotions:
1.Concupiscible Emotions 2.Irascible Emotions
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inclination towards good easy to attain, avoidance of evil easy to avoid.
Concupiscible Emotions
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6 kinds of Concupiscible Emotions
love hate desire aversion joy sorrow
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the basic inclination towards good
>Love
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the basic inclination away from evil
hate
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the inclination to good w/c is absent
desire
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the basic inclination away from evil w/c is absent
>Aversion
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it is when the good is present
joy
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it is when the good is absent
>Sorrow
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inclination towards good hard to attain, avoidance of evil hard to avoid.
Irascible Emotions
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5 kinds of Irascible Emotions
hope despair courage fear anger
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good, hard to obtain, not yet possessed, but you focus your attention on your ability to obtain it or the goodness.
>Hope
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good, hard to obtain, not yet possessed, but you focus your attention on the difficulty and you in ability you overcome it.
despair
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evil, hard to avoid not yet possessed, but you focus on your ability to overcome the evil.
courage
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evil, hard to avoid, not yet possessed, but you focus on your inability to overcome the evil.
fear
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once the evil you are trying to avoid is possessed and you react in its possession.
anger
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are the bases of other emotions like horror, pity etc.
concupiscible and irascible emotions

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