Test II Flashcards
(24 cards)
Those actions which happen in man.
Acts of Man
Actions which man performs knowingly, freely, and voluntarily.
Human Act
Done either by man’s mental or bodily powers under the command of the will.
Commanded Act
Those performed by the will and are not bodily externalized.
Elicited Act
Stand for the norm or morality which is the standard by which actions are judged as to their merit or demerits.
Dictates of reason
Accompanies an act which is primarily intended by the doer.
Direct Voluntariness
The person performing an act is liable for such act.
Imputability of Human Act
An act or situation which is the mere result of a directly willed act.
Indirect Voluntariness
A person who fully knows and fully intends an act.
Perfect Voluntariness
A person doing an act willfully, regardless of wether he likes to do it or not.
Simple Voluntariness
A person who is forced by circumstances beyond his control to perform an act which he would not do under normal conditions.
Conditional Voluntariness
A person who acts without fully realizing what he means to do.
Imperfect Voluntariness
An act that we do with the use of free will and intellect.
Human Act
The act must be free or voluntary in character.
Voluntary Act of Human ACt
The command of the will make use those means elected to carry out the intention.
Use
Will towards something, whether this be realizable or not.
Wish
The will towards something attainable but without necessarily committing oneself to attain it.
Intention
The selection of the will of those means effective enough to carry out the intention.
Election
The will of those needed to carry out the intention.
Consent
The will derived from the attainment of the thing he had desired earlier.
Fruition
Children below the age of reason, the insane, the senile - are considered
incapable of acting knowingly
Voluntariness comes from the latin word _____, referring to the Will.
“voluntas”
Actions that may be tolerated provided the circumstance rendering it to be wrong is first removed.
extrinsically evil
Actions that are prohibited at all times and under any circumstance.
intrinsically evil
