THE HUMAN ACT

CHAPTER 3
ACTIONS AS PRODUCTS OF OUR THOUGHTS AND DESIRES REVEAL
OUR MORAL CHARACTER
ATTRIBUTES OF HUMAN ACT

1.HUMAN ACTS ARE THOSE PERFORMED BY A PERSON WHI IS

ACTING KNOWINGLY, FREELY AND WILLFULLY

2. THESE ACTIONS ARE DELIBERATE, INTENTIONAL, OR VOLUNTARY

3. THEY ARE DIFFERENTIATED FROM ACTS OF MAN, WHICH ARE

INSTINCTIVE AND ARE NOT UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE FREEWILL.
1. KNOWINGLY, FREELY, AND
WILLFULLY
1.WHEN THE DOER IS CONSCIOUS AND AWARE OF THE REASON AND
THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS ACTIONS

2. CHILDREN BELOW THE AGE OF REASON, THE SENILE AND THE

INSANE ARE CONSIDERED INCAPBLE OF MORAL JUDGEMENT
2. ACTS DONE FREELY

1. ACTS DONE BY HIS OWN INIATIVE AND CHOICE WHITHOUT BEING

FORCED TO DO SO BY ANOTHER PERSON OR SITUATION

2. ACTIONS DONE WITHOUT HIS FREEWILL IS NOT A VOLNTARY

ACTION
3. AN ACT IS DONE WILLFULLY
WHEN THE DOER CONSENTS TO
THE ACT THE ACTIONS AS HIS OWN AND ASSUMES THE
1. ACCEPTING
ACCONTABILITY FOR ITS CONSEQUENCES

2. AN ACT WHICH LACKS OF ANY OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED

ATTRIBUTES IS EITHER IMPERFECTLY VOLUNTARY OR
INVOLUNTARY
KINDS OF HUMAN ACTS

HUMAN ACTS ARE EITHER ELICITED OR COMMANDED ACTS

ELICITED ACTS ARE THOSE
PERFORMED BY THE WILL BUT ARE
NOT BODILY EXTERNALIZED
1. WISH
2. INTENTION
3. CONSENT
4. ELECTION
5. USE
6. FRUITION
1. WISH

1. TENDENCY OF THE WILL TOWARDS AND OBJECT WITHOUT

CONSIDERING WHETHER IT IS ATTAINABLE OR NOT

2. THE OBJECT OF WISHING INCLUDES THE IMPOSSIBLE OR THAT

WHICH IS REMOTELY POSSIBLE
2 INTENTION

THE TENDENCY OF THE WILL TOWARDS AN OBJECT WHICH IS

ATTAINABLE, WITHOUT NECESSARILY COMMITTING ONESELF TO GET
IT
3 CONSENT

ACCEPTANCE OF THE WILL TO CARRY OUT THE INTENTION.

4. ELECTION

1. SELECTION OF THE WILL .

5. USE

1. IT IS THE COMMAND OF THE WILL TO MAKE USE OF THE MEANS

ELECTED TO CARRY OUT THE INTENTION
6. FRUITION

1. ENJOYMENT OF THE WILL.

2. SATISFACTON
B. COMMANDED ACTS

1. MENTAL AND BODILY ACTIONS PERFORMED UNDER THE

COMMAND OF THE WILL
2. EITHER INTERNAL OR ECTERNAL ACTIONS
INTERNAL ACTIONS

ARE THOSE PERFORMED MENTALLY, SUCH AS REASONING,

RECALLING, IMAGINING AND REFLECTING
EXTERNAL ACTIONS

1.ARE THOSE PERFORMED BODILY SUCH AS WALKING, DANCING,

TALKING AND WRITING

2. ALL EXTERNAL ACTIONS DERIVE THEMSELVES FROM INTERNAL

ACTS SINCE EVERY DELIBERATE ACT IS FIRST THOUGHT OF AND
DECIDED MENTALLY
MORAL DISTINCTIONS

1. MORAL ACTIONS
2. IMMORAL ACTION
3. AMORAL ACTION
MORAL ACTIONS

1.ARE THOSE IN CONFORMITY WITH THE NORM OF MORALITY

2. THESE ARE GOOD AND PERMISSIBLE ACTIONS
IMMORAL ACTIONS

1. ARE THOSE WHICH ARE NOT IN CONFORMITY WITH THE NORM

OF MORALITY.

2. THEY ARE EVIL AND PROHIBITED ACTIONS, SUCH AS CURSING,

CHEATING, STEALING, LYING, ETC.
AMORAL

1. ARE THOSE WHICH STAND NEUTRAL OR INDIFFIRENT TO THE

NORM OF MORALITY.
2. THESE ACTS ARE NEITHER GOOD NOR EVIL BUT THEY MAY
BECOME EVIL BECAUSE OF CIRCUMSTANCES
INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC EVIL

IMMORAL ACTS ARE EITHER INTRINSICALLY OR EXTRINSICALLY EVIL

INTRINSICALLY EVIL

WHEN IT IS WRONGFULNESS IS PART OF THE NATURE OF SUCH ACT

EXTRINSICALLY EVIL

WHEN IT ITS WRONGFULNESS COMES FROM AN OUTSIDE FACTOR,

THE ACTION IS GOOD , THE PURPOSE IS EVIL
VOLUNTARINESS

VOLUNTARINESS, OR VOLITION COMES FROM THE LATIN WORD

VOLUNTAS WHICH MEANS THE WILL

AN ACT IS VOLUNTARY BECAUSE IT IS DONE UNDER THE CONTROL

OF THE WILL.

VOLUNTARINESS IS EITHER PERFECT OR IMPERFECT EITHER SIMPLE

OR CONDITIONAL
PERFECT VOLUNTARINESS

POSSESSED BY A PERSON WHO IS ACTING WITH FULL KNOWLEDGE

AND COMPLETE FREEDOM
IMPERFECT VOLUNTARINESS

IS POSSESSED BY A PERSON WHO ACTS WITHOUT FULL

UNDERSTANDING AND WHAT HE IS DOING , OR WITHOUT COMPLETE
FREEDOM, WE PERFORM AN ACT WHICH WE DISLIKE
SIMPLE VOLUNTARINESS

DISPOSITION OF A PERSON PERFORMING ANY ACTIVITY

REGARDLESS OF HIS LIKING OR NOT LIKING

POSITIVE ACTS, REQUIRES AN ACT, EX. WALKING

NEGATIVE ACTS, OMISSION OF AN ACT, . EX. REFRAINING FROM
TALKING