HUMAN ACT

• INTRO…. PRIME MOVER OF MY ACTION AND IT’S ME. THAT’S MINE AND THE “NO,
THAT’S NOT MINE”.

• HUMAN ACTS

• DEFINITION - IS AN ACT THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE DELIBERATE FREE WILL OF MAN
• B.
CLASSIFICATION

• 1. ADEQUATE CAUSE OF HA: A) – BEGIN AND

ARE PERFECTED IN THE WILL. THERE ARE SOME
ACTS THAT BEGIN AND ARE PERFECTED IN THE
WILL ITSELF, AND THE REST BEGIN IN THE WILL
AND ARE PERFECTED BY OTHER FACULTIES
UNDER CONTROL UNDER CONTROL OF THE
WILL. (ELICITED AND COMMANDED)
• B. CLASSIFICATION.

• 1. ADEQUATE CAUSE OF HA: A) – BEGIN AND ARE PERFECTED IN THE WILL. THERE
ARE SOME ACTS THAT BEGIN AND ARE PERFECTED IN THE WILL ITSELF, AND THE REST
BEGIN IN THE WILL AND ARE PERFECTED BY OTHER FACULTIES UNDER CONTROL
UNDER CONTROL OF THE WILL. (ELICITED AND COMMANDED)
 ELICITED AND COMMANDED

• 1.WISH
• 2. INTENTION
• 3. CONSENT
• 4. ELECTION
• 5. USE
• 6. FRUITION
 ELICITED ACTS- emanate from the will of the
agent. It is a will act begin and completed in the
will without bodily involvement.
♥ COMMANDED ACTS are body mind acts done to
carry out the elicited act of the subject or agent.
WISH - natural inclination of the will towards an
object. INTENTION - the wills tendency towards
something, attainable but not obligatory.
CONSENT - is the acceptance of the will to
implement the agent’s attention.
• 8. ELECTION - agent chooses from among a
variety of means what he believes to be the
most effective to carry out of intention. USE -
wills command to make use of the selected
means in carrying out the intention. FRUITION -
enjoyment of the will as a result of the
attainment of the object desired earlier.
• COMMAND ACTS

1. INTERNAL
2. EXTERNAL
3. MIXED
• INTERNAL ACTS - refer to the purely mental
facilities under the command of the will.
• EXTERNAL ACTS - acts are done by the body as
commanded by the will.
• MIXED - mixed acts are those done by bodily
and mental powers.
 2. The Relation of Human Acts to Reason

• Good
• Evil
• Indifferent
C. CONSTITUENTS OF THE HUMAN ACT

1. Knowledge-
2. Freedom
3. Voluntariness.

. Knowledge- It means merely advertence, or knowledge

in intellect of what one is about and what this means.
-Knowledge- It means merely advertence, or
knowledge in intellect of what one is about and
what this means.
-Freedom--- A human act is an act determined (elicited or commanded) by the will and
by nothing else. It is an act therefore, that is under control of the will, an act that the will
can do or leave undone. Such an act is called a free act. Thus, every human act must be
free. In other words, freedom is an essential element of human act.
 Voluntariness.

• Voluntariness. — The Latin word for will is voluntas, and from this word we derive
the English terms, voluntary and voluntariness. To say, therefore, that a human act
must be voluntary, or must have voluntariness, is simply to say that it must be a will
act. This we already know but the very definition of the human act. Voluntariness is
the formal essential quality of the human act, and for it to be present, there must
ordinarily be both knowledge and freedom in the agent. Hence the term voluntary act
is synonymous with human act. In the next Article, we treat the voluntariness of
human acts in some detail.