LESSON 8 & 9 HUMAN ACTS AND MODIFIERS OF HUMAN ACTS

• Human Act is an act that comes from deliberate and free exercise of freedom
• Human acts can refer to those acts by the human person
• The constituents of human acts:

  • Deliberation
  • Freedom
  • Voluntariness
• Human acts can be:

  • Good
  • Evil
  • Indifferent
• Deliberation - It means the person has knowledge or awareness of his actions.
• Freedom - It means that the person has complete control all over the act
• Voluntariness - It means that the person who is aware and free of the act wills or desires an act to happen.
• Good Act + Good Intention - An objectively Good act may receive more goodness
• Bad Act + Bad Intention - An objectively evil act may become more evil because of bad intention
• Good Act + Bad Intention - An objectively good act may become morally evil because of bad intention
• Bad Act + Good Intention - An objectively evil act can never become good in spite of the good intentions
• Neutral Action + Good Intention - An Indifferent or Neutral act may become morally good.
• The Modifiers of Human Acts - Refers to those which affect the essential quality of knowledge, freedom, and voluntariness
• Modifiers of Human Acts - Can lessen or increase the morality of the act
• The Five modifiers of human acts:

  • Ignorance
  • Passions
  • Fear
  • Violence
  • Habit
• Ignorance - Lack or absence of knowledge that ought to be present
• "For God is the one who, for his good purpose, works in you both to desire and to work" - Philippians 2:13