Human Acts Flashcards
acts that are proper for man as man.
These are human activities of man by which he attains an end he wants to obtain.
These are the rational acts of human person which involves understanding and free will.
The free and conscious acts of a human being proper to man alone.
Human beings are capable of morality because our actions have ethical values.
Human acts
What are the two types of Human acts?
Moral acts and Immoral acts
Acts done by human beings in accordance to goodness.
E.g. telling the truth, helping others, returning a lost item, taking care of other, self-control (non-action).
It is done by man are right conduct.
Moral acts
Acts done by human beings in accordance with evil.
E.g. lying, killing, stealing.
It is done by man are wrong conduct.
Immoral acts
Also called Amoral acts
Activities of man as an animal.
Acts that are neither good or bad.
Acts that proceed from man’s vegetative nature like growth and nutrition or from his sentient nature such as perception and locomotion
E.g. eating, sleeping, walking.
They are not conduct, but only activity.
Acts of man
They are done indeliberately. The agent performing the act is not conscious of his actions going on.
The acts are not done freely. They may be done by force, that is, without the freedom of choice of the person.
The acts are done involuntarily.
The acts do not emanate from the heart of the agent.
Acts of man
What are the three constituents of human acts?
Knowledge
Freewill
Voluntariness
This modifier refers to the rational awareness by the person of his own acts.
Knowledge
It refers to the absence in a person of determination in the performance of his acts.
To be free means, the person is the one who chooses whether to do the act in whatever manner he can or not do it at all. He claims ownership of the act.
It is also a legal and philosophical concept referring to a choice being made of a person’s freewill, as opposed to being made as a result of coercion or duress.
Freewill
It is the consenting by the person to do an act out of his own deliberations.
Absence of any of these three constituents/ elements shall render an act not a human act at all or the moral responsibility is lessened.
Voluntariness
An act which is primarily intended is said to be ( )
Directly voluntary
An act which follows or goes along with the primarily intended act is ( ).
Indirectly voluntary
Human acts come from the ( ), they express the thoughts and desires of a person, which in turn reveals the person’s moral character.
Intellect and the will
