Chapter Cinco

Question 1

Acts that proceed from reason and free will.

It is also known as personal acts

Answer 1

Actus Humani

Question 2

Actions which are performed without the intervention of the intellect and the free will

They comprise all spontaneous
Biological and sensual processes

Answer 2

Actus Hominis

Question 3

What are the Constituents of Human Act?

Answer 3

1. Knowledge
2. Freedom
3. Voluntariness

Question 4

The faculty of thought

Answer 4

Knowledge

Question 5

the ability to act without restraint.

Answer 5

Freedom

Question 6

Free to choose what he likes according to his insight and will

Answer 6

Voluntariness

Question 7

What are the Determinants of Morality?

Answer 7

1. Object/Act itself
2. Circumstances
3. Intention

Question 8

It is the primary source for the judgment of an action

Answer 8

Object

Question 9

The object is the act of the will

Answer 9

Finis Operis

Question 10

Influence or affect the act by increasing or lessening its Voluntariness or freedom thus affect the Morality of the Act

Answer 10

Circumstances

Question 11

The conditions outside the act (not part of the act)

Answer 11

Circumstances

Question 12

7 Circumstances

Answer 12

Circumstances of:

1. Person
2. Place
3. Time
4. Manner
5. Agent
6. Thing Itself
7. The Means

Question 13

refers to the doer (agent) of the act and the receiver or person to whom the act is done

Answer 13

Circumstance of Person

Question 14

the good ACT becomes better or more meritorious than if it is done by a poor person.

Answer 14

Circumstance of Person

Question 15

the bad ACT becomes worse by reason of the person to whom the act is done.

Answer 15

Circumstance of Person

Question 16

Refers to the particular space or locality where the act is done or performed

Answer 16

Circumstance of Place

Question 17

the bad ACT can become worse, when it is done in particular place.

Answer 17

Circumstance of Place

Question 18

Refers to the exact or definite moment or hour when the act is performed.

Answer 18

Circumstance of Time

Question 19

the good ACT can becomes better, or a bad act becomes worse by reason of the time when the act is performed.

Answer 19

Circumstance of Time

Question 20

Refers to the WAY THE AGENT manage to do his act.

“how did the agent do the act?”

Answer 20

Circumstance of Manner

Question 21

“In what condition was the agent when he/she performed the act how did the agent do the act?”

“was the agent ignorant or influenced by fear, habits, emotions, etc.?”

Answer 21

Condition of the Agent

Question 22

Denotes the special quality of the object

Answer 22

Circumstance of the Thing Itself

Question 23

It is the objective of the act

The reason or the intention for doing an act.

Answer 23

The end intended by the agent / intention

Question 24

The reason for which the agent undertakes the act

The movement of the will toward the end

Answer 24

Finis Operantis

Question 25

An act which is good in itself and is done for a good end becomes

Answer 25

doubly good

Question 26

An act which is bad itself and is done with a bad end becomes

Answer 26

doubly bad

Question 27

An act which is good itself and is done with a bad intention becomes

Answer 27

bad

Question 28

An act which is bad itself and is done with a good end does not become

Answer 28

good

Question 29

Kinds Of Voluntary Acts

Answer 29

1. Perfectly Voluntary Act 2. Imperfectly Voluntary 3. Directly Voluntary 4. Indirectly Voluntary 5. Conditional Voluntariness 6. Positively Voluntary Act 7. Negatively Voluntary Act

Question 30

Is an act which is performed with full attention | And full consent of the will.

Answer 30

Perfectly Voluntary Act

Question 31

Is an act if attention or consent of the will | Or both together are imperfect

Answer 31

Imperfectly Voluntary

Question 32

If the act is intended as an end in itself or | If it is intended as a means for another end

Answer 32

Directly Voluntary

Question 33

If an act is not intended but merely permitted | As the inevitable result of an object directly willed.

Answer 33

Indireclty Voluntary

Question 34

It is present in a person who is forced by circumstances beyond his control to perform an act.

Answer 34

Conditional Voluntariness

Question 35

The will effects something positively | By exercising active influence on the causation of an object

Answer 35

Positively Voluntary Act

Question 36

The will effects something negatively by voluntary omission | Of an act which could have averted an evil to another person or helped him to secure a good

Answer 36

Negatively Voluntary Act

Question 37

Factors which may affect any of the constituents VOLUNTARY human acts; may diminish one’s culpability

Answer 37

Modifiers Of Human Acts

Question 38

is merely the lack or absence of knowledge of a person capable of knowing a certain thin or things

Answer 38

Ignorance

Question 39

Two types of Ignorance

Answer 39

Invincible and Vincible

Question 40

An ignorance which cannot be cleared up (or dispelled), or Knowledge that is lacking and cannot be acquired.

Answer 40

Invincible Ignorance

Question 41

Ignorance that which can and should be dispelled

Answer 41

Vincible Ignorance

Question 42

one uses some, but NOT enough diligence in an effort to remove ignorance.

Answer 42

Simple Vincible

Question 43

a kind of ignorance which, though not directly willed, could and should be cleared up, but left wholly

Answer 43

Crass Or Supine Vincible

Question 44

which is deliberately fostered in order to avoid any obligation that knowledge might bring to light.

Answer 44

Affected Vincible

Question 45

no responsibility or culpability

Answer 45

Invincible Ignorance

Question 46

do not eliminate Moral Responsibillity but Lessens /Graver it

Answer 46

Vincible Ignorance

Question 47

It arises from deficient education, Bad company or misleading information One is not responsible For the consequences of error made in good faith

Answer 47

Error | False Judgment Or Conviction

Question 48

Refers to momentary deprivation of insight

Answer 48

Inattention

Question 49

A movement of the sensitive (irrational) appetite which is produced by the good or evil apprehended by the mind

Answer 49

Passions

Question 50

Passion is a Movement of the sensitive appetite that ______

Answer 50

precedes the free decision of the will

Question 51

tending to something that is apprehended as suitable for the subject.

Answer 51

Desire

Question 52

the aptitude or proportion of the appetite towards the thing/object apprehended as simply good.

Answer 52

Love

Question 53

it arises from good already gained.

Answer 53

Delight

Question 54

tending away from a sensible object that one apprehends to be simply bad or unsuitable for oneself.

Answer 54

Aversion/Flight

Question 55

a motion of being-weighed-down, crushed, or depressed.

Answer 55

Sorrow

Question 56

is apprehended as repugnant and hurtful.

Answer 56

Hatred dissonance of the appetite

Question 57

arises when the subject apprehends an object as good but impossible to attain.

Answer 57

Hope

Question 58

straightforward withdrawal from the object regarded as good but impossible to attain.

Answer 58

Despair

Question 59

drawing forward, rather than repulsed by, the prospect of attempting something arduous.

Answer 59

Daring

Question 60

withdrawing into itself in an attempt to create some distance between itself and the evil object.

Answer 60

Fear

Question 61

tending towards the good asserting its power and driving the other off or putting it ints place.

Answer 61

Anger

Question 62

Divisions Of Passions

Answer 62

Concupiscible | Irascible

Question 63

Passion through which the soul is simply inclined to seek what is suitable according to the senses, and to fly from what is hurtful.

Answer 63

Concupiscible

Question 64

Whereby an animal resists the attacks of any agents That hinder what is suitable and inflict harm Its object is something arduous, Because its tendency is to overcome and rise above obstacles.

Answer 64

Irascible

Question 65

A mental agitation of disturbance brought about by the apprehension of some present or immanent danger

Answer 65

Fear

Question 66

Is mental trepidation due to an impending evil

Answer 66

Fear

Question 67

It is what and not what | Which is one of the passions

Answer 67

fear of the senses and not intellectual fear

Question 68

An external force applied | To compel a person to do something contrary to his will

Answer 68

Violence

Question 69

Two general types of violence:

Answer 69

Perfect Violence | Imperfect Violence

Question 70

one in which complete resistance is given

Answer 70

Perfect Violence

Question 71

occurs when some resistance is shown but not as much as should be.

Answer 71

Imperfect Violence

Question 72

Inclination to perform some particular action acquired by repetition, and characterized by a decreased power of resistance and an increased facility of performance

Answer 72

Habits

Question 73

Habits are sometimes called what

Answer 73

second nature

Question 74

Habits, if disposes to evil =

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Vice

Question 75

Habits, if disposes to good=

Answer 75

Virtue

Question 76

Facility and readiness of acting in a certain | Manner acquired by repeated acts

Answer 76

Habits