Philosophy Flashcards
These are acts originating from the individual
performing the act using knowledge about the situations of the act.
Voluntary Acts
actions shared by humans and other animals
Acts of Man
appropriate actions of human beings
Human acts
2 Classifications of Voluntary Actions
Voluntary
Related to Compulsion
actions are performed from will and reason.
Voluntary
considered as mixed of
voluntary and involuntary. It is more voluntary if the desire
and choice has been performed and involuntary if it has
considered preferences or alternative
Related to Compulsion
acts done under a) force or coercion and b).
ignorance where the doer failed to understand the effect and feels sorry
on the result.
Involuntary actions
Classification of Involuntary Actions
Under Compulsion
Through Ignorance of Particular Circumstances.
circumstances which are beyond the
control of the agent and contributes none to the action.
Example: A person was kidnapped, hence impossible to
resist.
Under Compulsion
Example: a
man steals and ignorant of the law, arrow or gun shot by
mistake.
Through Ignorance of Particular Circumstances
According to _____________, freedom and obligation are two
indispensable conditions for morality to occur.
John Mothershead
understood to be
present when one is choosing a course of action, and he or she is taking full
responsibility for consequence of his actions.
Freedom
usually follows or arrives
from freedom.
Obligation
_____________ can be said to be present if the human person is free
in making choices in the realm of morality – that is, in making choices with
regards to determining what is the right thing to do in situations and
circumstances in his own life.
Freedom
T or F. An action is not in the full extent of morality if a person
does something while his or her freedom and rationality is altered or modified.
T
This is a choice which is deliberately selected
based on a moral standpoint. Basically, they are normative answers
about what we ought to do from a moral system that we uphold and
its moral principles.
Intellectual Choice
These normative answers would take into
consideration the behavior which the society will accept.
Intellectual Choice
choice which is borne out of psychological and
emotional considerations.
Practical Choice
made when confronted with the actual
situation, and usually affected by psychological aspect of the person
embroiled in the moral situation or dilemma.
Practical Choice
T or F. Human actions are always conceived intellectually.
F
Existence precedes essence
Jean Paul Sartre
Father of Existentialism
Soren Kierkegaard
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains
Jean Jacques Rousseau
