lecture 3 Flashcards
essential of an act are:
knowledge, freedom and voluntariness
5 common of modified of the act:
ignorance, concupiscence, fear, violence and habit.
generally, it means the lack or absence of knowledge?
ignorance
what are 3 classification of ignorance?
negative ignorance, privative ignorance and positive ignorance.
is the absence of intellectual knowledge in man.
negative ignorance
is the absence of knowledge that ought to be present
privative ignorance
is the presence of a false knowledge. this is also called mistake or error.
positive ignorance
this refers to the ignorance of the existence of a duty, rule, or regulation.
ignorance of law
this refers to the ignorance of the nature or circumstances of an act as forbidden. it is also lack of knowledge that what one is actually doing comes under the prohibition of a known law.
ignorance of fact
this is law of knowledge of the precise sanction affixed to the law.
ignorance of penalty
this is ignorance that can be dismissed by the use of ordinary diligence.
vincible ignorance
this results due to lack of proper diligence on the agent, and is his fault.
vincible ignorance
this is also culpable ignorance
vincible ignorance
3 degrees of vincible ignorance
crass ignorance, simply vincible and affected ignorance.
if it be the result of total or nearly total, lack of effort to dispel it.
crass ignorance