Theo - Lesson 3 Flashcards
The three elements/sources of morality of human acts
object, intention, and circumstance
Which source of morality is being defined:
Good toward which the will deliberately directs itself
Object
Which source of morality is being defined:
Matter of a human act
Object
Morally specifies the act of the will, insofar as reason recognizes and judges it to be or not to be in conformity with the true good
Object
This resides in the acting subject
Intention
Determines an action by its end*
Intention
____ is the first goal of intention
End
Good anticipated from the action
intention
The end can justify the means of an action
False
Which source of morality is the secondary elements of a moral act
Circumstances
This contributes to increasing or diminishing the moral goodness or evil of human acts
Circumstances
Circumstances may change the moral quality of an act
False
It can’t
These affect human acts in the essential qualities of the three constituents of morality
Modifiers of Human Acts
Absence of knowledge that ought to be present
privative ignorance
Frailty or proneness to evil
Concupiscence
Refers to bodily appetites or tendencies
Passions
Absence of knowledge that is supposed to be present
Positive ignorance
Considered a mistake
Positive ignorance
Neglecting knowledge
Negative ignorance
Passions that spring to action unstimulated by any act of the will
Antecedent
-> considered as the “if” statement
Called ______ when the will directly or
indirectly stirs them up or fosters them (passions)
Consequent
-> considered as the “then” statement
Antecedent or Consequent
Considered as an act of man
Antecedent
-> because this is before it happens
_______ concupiscence is the fault of the agent, for it is willed, either directly or indirectly, either in itself or in cause
Consequent
-> happens AFTER
Shrinking back
fear
