III.

THE HUMAN PERSON

AND
HUMAN ACTS
 What is being a Human in
the Christian Perspective?
Essentially GOOD
responsible
freedom
Social being
Call to LOVE
Redeemed by Christ
Objectives. At the end of the lesson
the students will be able to:

1. Familiarize human acts and its

constituent principles,
2. Give much value on every good
decisions and actions to be done in
life,
3. Manifest in everyday life good
and true actions which are
conformed to God’s will.
HUMAN ACTS
Christian moral life is
simply the call to
become loving
persons, in the
fullness of life-with-
others-in-community
before God, in
imitation of Jesus
Christ.
All aspects of
the human
person and all
his/her actions
are under the
scrutiny of
Christian
morality
 The human person,
with his/her intellect
and freewill, is the
moral agent, the
supporting actor
(Christ being the lead
actor) in the dramatic
scene of God’s loving
history of salvific acts
A. Concept and Nature
of Human Acts
HUMAN ACTS (actus
humanus)

are actions that proceed from

insight into the nature and
purpose of one’s doing and from
the consent of free will.
-A human act is any thought,
word, deed, desire, or omission
which comes from a person
acting with full knowledge of
what he/she is doing, who is free
to act or to refrain from action,
and who gives full assent to
his/her will to act.
 Examples of Human Acts
-thinking
-loving
-reading
books
-studying
-praying
-reciting in
class
ACTS OF MAN (actus
hominis)

– are performed without

intervention of intellect and free
will.
-Acts of Man are comprised all
spontaneous biological and
sensual processes, like
nutrition, breathing, sensual
impressions; all acts performed
without the use of reason by
people such as lunatics, the
drunk, and those who are
asleep.
-Acts of man, therefore, are
indeliberate, involuntary, not
free, not under one’s control,
and beyond the mind and the
will.
A. Constituent Principles of
Human Acts
*KNOWLEDGE

*FREEDOM

*VOLUNTARINESS
Constituent Principles of
Human Acts
1. Knowledge
The essential conditions
for a human act include
knowledge of the
aspired object, attention
to the action with which
the object is to be
pursued, and judgments
on the value of the act
2. Freedom
The second essential
condition for a human
act is the consent of
the freewill which
implies freedom from
any external or
internal compulsion
3. Voluntariness (intention)
anything that is object of the will is
called “willed”(volitum)

But not everything that is willed is

necessarily an effect of the will. The
setting of a house on fire which is
not caused but desired by someone
is something willed but not the
effect of the will.
 When what is willed is both the
object and the effect of the will is
called voluntary (voluntarium)

Ex: The burning of a house which

a person wills and causes is
voluntary
The
voluntariness of
the human act is
determined by
the will of the
agent.

Sometimes, this
is also known as
the intention of
the agent
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