HUMAN ACTS Flashcards
It is an individual who has the ability to discern right from wrong and to be held accountable for his or her own actions.
MORAL AGENT
A person’s actions can be judged morally, so that various responses such as praise or punishment may be appropriate – this is the stuff of retrospective responsibility. In the other direction, a moral agent has particular duties or concerns – the stuff of prospective responsibility.
RESPONSIBILITY
It is an act which proceeds from the deliberate free will of man in which proceed from man as a rational being. The act, then, has to be advertently or knowingly done by the agent so that it may be called as such.
HUMAN ACTS
It is a state of mind and is the power of a sentient being to exercise its will. Desiring a particular outcome, people bend their thoughts and their efforts toward realizing it – toward a goal. Their capacity to work towards their goal is their freedom.
FREEDOM
CONSTITUENTS OF HUMAN ACTS
- KNOWLEDGE
- FREEDOM
- VOLUNTARINESS
It is an awareness or consciousness of what the moral agent is doing, thinking or willing.
KNOWLEDGE
It is the power to choose between two or more courses of action without being forced to take one or the other by anything except our own will.
FREEDOM
It is a formal quality of human acts whereby any action or omission results from a principle within the agent, and from some knowledge which the agent possesses of the end therefore it is a will-act.
VOLUNTARINESS
It is an act that does not proceed from the deliberate freewill of man which merely happen in the body or through the body without awareness of the mind or the control of the will.
ACTS OF MAN
The object, motive, and circumstances are the three elements composing the morality of the particular action performed by a moral agent.
DETERMINANTS OF MORALITY
DETERMINANTS OF MORALITY
- THE OBJECT
- THE MOTIVE
- THE CIRCUMSTANCES
It is the basic factor of morality, the substance of the moral act, the act itself.
THE OBJECT
It is the purpose or intention for the sake of which something is done.
THE MOTIVE
Are conditions modifying human actions, either by increasing or by diminishing the responsibility attending them.
THE CIRCUMSTANCES
CONDITIONS AFFECTING THE MORALITY OF HUMAN ACT
IGNORANCE
CONCUPISCENCE
FEAR
VIOLENCE
It is an act of the practical judgment of reason deciding upon an individual action as good and to be performed or as evil and to be avoided.
CONSCIENCE
simply means the absence or lack of knowledge.
IGNORANCE
It is the revolt of the sense faculties of man against the dominion of his higher faculty of reason.
CONCUPISCENCE
is an external force extorted by a free cause to coerce the other into doing that which is contrary to his will.
VIOLENCE
is an agitation of the mind brought about by the apprehension of an impending evil.
FEAR
