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
if some efforts were done but not preserving and whole hearted effort, be unsuccessfully used to dispel it.
simply vincible
if positive effort is made to retain it
affected ignorance
this is ignorance that ordinary and proper cannot dispel because of two reasons: the agent has no realization whatever of his lack of knowledge and the agent who realizes his ignorance finds ineffective his effort to dismiss it.
invincible ignorance
2 degrees of invincible ignorance
physically invincible and morally invincible
if no human effort can dismiss it.
physically invincible
if it would be extremely difficult to dismiss it even with the aid of some good and prudent men.
morally invincible
this refers to acts performed while ignorance exists.
ignorance in the results
it is that which precedes all consent of the will.
antecedent ignorance
it is that which accompanies an act that would have been performed even it the ignorance did not exist
concomitant ignorance