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Human Acts
Human Acts
Human Acts
ACTS OF MAN
ACTUS HOMINIS
ACTS OF MAN:
INVOLUNTARY actions
Actions which merely happen in
the body or through the body
without the awareness of the mind
or the control of the will.
Nutritive processes of the body,
circulation, respiration, growth,
chemical reaction.
They comprise all spontaneous,
HUMAN ACTS
ACTUS HUMANI
ACTS THAT PROCEED FROM
REASON AND FREE WILL
RIGHTLY CALLED
PERSONAL ACTS
AMORAL
1. Not involving questions of right or
wrong; without moral quality; neither
moral nor immoral.
INDIFFERENT
NEUTRA
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2.B
-- Lacking moral sensibility; one
who is not concerned with any
moral standards at all;
--not caring about right and wrong;
--having no moral standards,
restraints or principles;
--with callous conscience.
IMPUTABLE - To impute to
charge/accuse a person with
fault, an offense or a crime.
ACCOUNTABLE answerable or
responsible
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FREEDOM
the ability to act without restraint.
In the context of internal
control,
freedom is also known
as selfdetermination,
individual sovereignty,
or autonomy.
IMPERFECTLY VOLUNTARY
IS AN ACT IF ATTENTION OR CONSENT OF THE
WILL OR BOTH ARE IMPERFECT
POSITIVELY
VOLUNTARY ACT
THE WILL EFFECTS
SOMETHING POSITIVELY
BY EXERCISING ACTIVE
INFLUENCE ON THE
CAUSATION OF AN
OBJECT
FOR EXAMPLE, INJURING
A NEIGHBOR BY SETTING
HIS HOUSE ON FIRE
NEGATIVELY
VOLUNTARY ACT
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 FOR EXAMPLE, NOT
TO EXTINGUISH A FIRE
ALREADY STARTING IN A
NEIGHBORS HOUSE
DIRECTLY VOLUNTARY
IF THE ACT IS INTENDED AS AN
END IN ITSELF OR
IF IT IS INTENDED AS A MEANS
FOR ANOTHER END
INDIRECLTY VOLUNTARY
IF AN ACT IS NOT INTENDED
BUT MERELY PERMITTED
AS THE INEVITABLE RESULT
OF AN OBJECT DIRECTLY
WILLED.
BRIEFLY
UNDERTAKING AN ACTION
FROM WHICH A GOOD AND EVIL EFFECT ARE
FORESEEN IS PERMISSIBLE :
IF THE ACTION IN ITSELF IS NOT EVIL,
IF THE BAD EFFECT IS NOT INTENDED
IF THERE IS SUFFICIENTLY GRAVE REASON TO PERMIT
THE EVIL.
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