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Modifier Of Human Acts Flashcards

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Are factors that affect essential elements of human act namely, knowledge, freedom, voluntariness

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Modifier of human acts

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5 modifiers of human acts

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  1. Ignorance
  2. Concupiscence
  3. Fear
  4. Violence
  5. Habit
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Absence of knowledge in a person who is required to know what he does know

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Ignorance

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3 standpoints that could help us understand ignorance

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  1. Standpoint of the object
  2. Standpoint of the subject
  3. Standpoint of the consequences
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Refers to a thing of which a person may be ignorant

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Standpoint as a subject

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Ignorance from the standpoint of the subject divided into 2

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Vincible ignorance
Invincible ignorance

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Is a conquerable ignorance

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Vincible ignorance

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3 degrees of vincible ignorance

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Crass or supine vincible ignorance
Simple vincible ignorance
Affected vincible ignorance

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Happen when it is the result of total or nearly total, lack of effort to dispel it

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Crass or supine vincible ignorance

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Proceeds when the agent attempts to exert efforts but fail to dispel his ignorance

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Simple vincible ignorance

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Exist in the agent when it exert the effort to retain his ignorance as a pretext of guilt or remorse

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Affected vincible ignorance

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An unconquerable also called inculpable ignorance

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Invincible ignorance

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2 degree of invincible ignorance

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Physically
Morally

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Occurs if no human effort csn dispel it

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Physically

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Happens if ignorance cant be overcome by ordinary deligence and reasonable efforts

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Morally invincible ignorance

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Refers to ths thing of which a person maybe ignorant

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Ignorance from the Standpoint of the object

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Refers to the consideration of ignorance with reference to the acts that are performed in ignorance

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Ignorance from the standpoint of the act

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Belongs to man’s sensory appetites rather than man’s intellectual appetites

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Concupiscence

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Passions divided into two

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Concupscible
Irascible

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Are paralleled by their evil objects

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Concupscible

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Are broadly referred to those passions that are perceived by the sensation as evil and also those that offer hardship to the acquisition of the object

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Irascible passions

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Types of concupscible passions

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Love
Desire
Joy
Hope
Bravery

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Types of irascible passions

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Hatred
Sorrow
Horror
Despair
Fear

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2 types of moral passions

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Antecedent passion
Consequent passion

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Are those which spring into action unstimulated by any act of the will

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Antecedents passion

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Are those that arise when the will directly or indirectly stirs them up or fosters them

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Consequent passion

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Defined as the disturbance of the mind of a person who is confronted by an impending or harm to himself or his loved ones

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Fear

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Defined in ethics as the application or used of physical power or external force on the person by another for the purpose of compelling him to do something against his will

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Violence

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Derived from the latin word hebere which means to have formally.

Defined as a constant and easy way of doing things acquired by the repetition of doing acts

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Habit

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2 terms of habit

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Entitative habits
Operative habits

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Habits of being

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Entitative habits

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Habits of acting

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Operative habits

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Is one which precedes all consent of the will

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Antecedent ignorance

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An ignorance which follow upon the act of the will

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Consequent ignorance

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According to his, Law is an ordinance of reason promulgated for the common good by one who is incharged in community or society

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St. Thomas Aquinas

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2 definition of law

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Law is an ordinance
Law is an ordinance of reason

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This means that law is not just a mere advice, counsel, or suggestions but an order, a command, a mandate.

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Law is an ordinance

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This means that the law is not an arbitrary whim but an intelligent direction, composed by a superior’s will, but planned and formulated by a right reason

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Law is an ordinance of reason

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Refers to that which is concerned with directing man’s action and give rules of right and wrong of what man should do and what man should not do in a view of his final goal

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Moral law

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Is a natural order of a man as a being of action, as a rational being, and as a free being

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Natural Moral law

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Is derived from the latin phrase cum alia scientia which means the individuals man’s application of knowledge or acting with knowledge

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Conscience

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Kinds of conscience

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  1. Antecedent conscience
  2. Consequent conscience
  3. True conscience
  4. Erroneous conscience
  5. Certain conscience
  6. Doubtful conscience
  7. Scrupulous conscience
  8. Lax conscience
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Is a judgement before the action is done

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Antecedent conscience

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Is a judgement after an act is done

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Consequent conscience

45
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Is a conscience which judges things truly as they are

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True conscience

46
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Also called false conscience

It judges things as distorted or slanted manner since it is considered bad acts as good and good acts as bad.

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Erroneous conscience

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Is a subjective certainty of the legality pf the particular actions to be done or to be omitted

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Certain conscience

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Happens when a person is not certain about a moral judgement

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Doubtful conscience

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Is one which sees wrong where there is none

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Scrupulous conscience

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Opposite of scrupulous conscience

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Lax conscience

51
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Absence of knowledge in a person who is not required to know what he does not know.

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Innocence

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Refers to the ignorance on the part of a person by whom ignorance exists.

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Standpoint of subject

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Refers to the consideration of ignorance with reference to the acts that are performed in ignorance.

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Standpoint of the consequence

54
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Rule of action or principle of conduct which direct things towards a define goal.

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Law

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