Human Acts

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are actions that proceed from insight into the nature and purpose of one’s doing and from consent of free will.

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Human Act (Actus Humani)

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are acts which proceed from insight and free will

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Human Act (Actus Humani)

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can also rightly be called personal act

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Human Act

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are actions, physical, spiritual, internal or external, that proceed from the deliberate free will of man.

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Human Act

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hese are rational and willed acts, actions that are proper only to man, which man does not share with the brutes, actions that require man’s rationality.

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Human Act

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are man’s actions which man shares with the animal

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Acts of man

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are actions that proceed without man’s deliberate free will.

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Acts of man

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do not make man responsible for his actions

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Acts of man

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Man is only responsible for his action if he does the act out of

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knowledge, freedom and voluntariness

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3 ELEMENTS OF HUMAN ACTS
(Constituents of Human Acts)

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knowledge, freedom and voluntariness

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Doing an act with _______________makes the act deliberate

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knowledge

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The _________________ has intellectual knowledge of the act, has awareness of the means to employ as he performs the act, and has also the awareness of the end to achieve in his action.

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agent or doer

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Every human act is done with

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freedom

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An act done with ______________means that the agent does an act under the control of his will.

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freedom

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If the agent used his _____________, his will is not affected or influenced by any constraint either within himself or outside himself.

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freedom

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He is not forced to do or not to do a particular action

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freedom

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It is synonymous with human act.

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VOLUNTARINESS

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requires the other two constituents (knwledge and freedom)

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voluntariness

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Voluntary act is a ________________

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willful act

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are actions performed without intervention of intellect and free will.

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Acts of Man (actus hominis)

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All spontaneous biological and sensual processes, like nutrition, breathing, sensual impressions

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Acts of Man (actus hominis)

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All acts performed by those who have not the use of reason, like people asleep, lunatics, drunken people

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Acts of Man (actus hominis)

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Actions which merely happen in the body or through the body without the awareness of the mind or the control of the will.

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Acts of Man (actus hominis)

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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.

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Freedom

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is not “the right to say and do anything,” but to “do the good and truth.

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Freedom

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is defined as the act which proceeds from an intrinsic principle with knowledge of the end.

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voluntary act

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proceeds from the will and depends upon the will.

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voluntary act

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is a will-act, not only a “willed act”

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voluntary act

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Human Actions are _________________ when they have the moral perfections and fullness required by the object of the actions.

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good (moral)

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Human actions are _______________ when they are contrary to the moral perfections required by the object of the action

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evil (immoral)

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Human actions are _________________ when it has no relation to morality

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non-moral or amoral

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MODIFIERS OF HUMAN ACTS

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IGNORANCE CONCUPISCENCE FEAR VIOLENCE (FORCE) HABIT

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One cannot be excused for reasons of innocence out of

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IGNORANCE

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is defined as the absence of knowledge in a person who is required to know – to know what he does not know

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ignorance

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means the absence of knowledge in person who is not required to know what he does not know

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Innocence

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belongs to man’s sensory appetites rather than to man’s intellectual appetites.

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Concupiscence

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They refer to the emotions and feelings of man in relation to his actions

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Concupiscence

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Since emotions and feelings belong to man’s sensory appetites, they are in themselves irrational

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Concupiscence

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are defined as appetites towards the possession of good and avoidance

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Concupiscence (passion)

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The shrinking of the mind on account of an anticipated evil or threat

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Fear

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The emotion that catch impending or anticipated evil and manifest itself in the desire to get away, avoid, or escape from an impending threat.

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Fear

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Actions that proceed ________________ are those that are performed because of fear. It is fear that causes or moves the agent to perform them.

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FROM fear

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Actions that proceed _________________ are those that are performed with fear as the accompanying elements.

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WITH fear

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The actual application of force to a person by another for the purpose of compelling him to do something against his will

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violence (force)

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Is defined as a constant and easy way of doing things acquired by the repetition of the same act.

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habit

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Tendencies we have developed in ourselves from repeated acts.

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habit

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To determine the degree of responsibility.

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habit

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To the extent a person has been taken over by a particular habit, that person has a decreased amount of responsibility for what he is doing. However, an individual is bound to avoid becoming entrenched in bad habits, and is obligated to try to replace them with good habits.

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habit