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ETHICS
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 WHAT IS
ETHICS?
Ethics is the practical science of
the morality of the human conduct.
AS SCIENCE
• A science is a relatively complete • Morality of human conduct.
and systematically arranged • It presents the reason which
body of connected data together show these data to be true.
with the causes or reasons by
which these data are known to • Ethics is therefore a science.
be true.
PRACTICAL SCIENCE
• If the data of a science directly • The science of Ethics presents
imply rules or derictions for data which directly imply and
thought or action, the science is indicate directions for human
called practical. conduct.
• It presents truth that are to be
acted upon.
A SCIENCE OF A HUMAN CONDUCT
• By human conduct we mean
only such human activity as is
deliberate and free.
• A deliberate free act, an act
performed with advertence and
motive, an act determined by
the free will, is called HUMAN
ACT.
• Acts performed by the human
beings unconsciously or without
the excercise of free choice, are
called ACTS OF MAN.
• Acts of man are not human acts
in the technical sense.
• Ethics treats human acts; human
acts make human conduct:
Ethics is therefore a science of
human conduct.
A SCIENCE OF THE MORALITY OF HUMAN CONDUCT

• Human conduct is free, knowing, • Ethics studies human activity to

deliberate human activity. Such
activity is either in agreement or
disagreement with the dictates
of reason.
• The relation of the human
conduct with the dictates of
reason is called morality.
determine what must be to
stand in harmony with the
dictates of reason.
• Hence, Ethics deals with the
morality of human conduct.
THE NAME ETHICS
• Is derived from the Greek word • It is also called moral science or
ethos which means, “ a moral philosophy.
characteristic way of acting”

OBJECT
• Human act, material object.
• The rectitude or the righteousness of the human acts, formal object.
HUMAN ACTS
CHAPTER I
TWO KINDS OF ACTS

HUMAN ACT
An act which proceeds from the deliberate free will of man.

ACT OF MAN
An act which performs indeliberately or without advertence.
TWO KINDS OF ACTS

ACT OF MAN
Sometimes becomes a human act
In what way that it becomes a human act?

E T H I C S
TWO KINDS OF ACTS

ACT OF MAN X
Sometimes becomes a human act
In what way that it becomes a human act?

E T H I C S
TWO KINDS OF ACTS

ACT OF MAN X
Sometimes becomes a human act
In what way that it becomes a human act?
HUMAN ACTS

E T H I C S
TWO KINDS OF ACTS

HUMAN ACTS
moral acts and subjected to evaluation

GOOD, BAD,
INDEFINITE
TWO KINDS OF ACTS

HUMAN ACTS
human acts tend to repeat themselves and form a habit

HABIT
are sometimes being
associated into what we
call a man’s character.
TWO KINDS OF ACTS

A MAN I
DO YOU AGREE?
AM NOT WHAT I DO
CHURCH
is what his human acts
makes him.

Will never condemn the person.

ACTION
CLASSIFICATION OF
HUMAN ACTS
CLASSIFICATION OF HUMANA ACTS
Adequate Cause of Human Acts
And their relation to the
Dictates of Reason
CLASSIFICATION OF HUMANA ACTS
Adequate Cause of Human Acts
There are some acts that begin and are perfected in the will itself.

WILLalone
ElicitedActs
CommandedActs
Example
• You intend to go to your room and study. Your intention is a simple
will-act, it started and completed in the will. Therefore it is an elicited
acts. But to carry out the intention, your body and mind must be
exercised. (commanded acts) thus, you walk on your room, turn on
the light, sit at your desk, take down a book, turn to the lesson, bend
your eyes upon the page. All these bodily acts are human acts,
commanded acts.
• Under the head of adequate cause we therefore consider: Elicited
acts and Commanded acts.
ELICITED ACTS
• Wish
• Intention
• Consent
• Election
• Use
• Fruition
ELICITED ACTS
• Wish The simple love of anything; it is the
• Intention first tendency of the will towards a
thing, whether this thing is realizable or
• Consent not.
• Election
• Use
• Fruition
ELICITED ACTS
• Wish The purposive tendency of the will
• Intention towards a thing regarded as realizable,
whether the thing is actually done or not.
• Consent
• Election
• Use
• Fruition
ELICITED ACTS
• Wish The acceptance by the will of the means
• Intention necessary to carry out intention.
• Consent
• Election
• Use
• Fruition
ELICITED ACTS
• Wish The selection by the will of the precise
• Intention means to be employed in carrying out an
intention.
• Consent
• Election
• Use
• Fruition
ELICITED ACTS
• Wish The employment by the will powers, (of
• Intention body, mind, or both) to carry out its
intention by the means elected.
• Consent
• Election
• Use
• Fruition
ELICITED ACTS
• Wish The enjoyment of a thing willed and
• Intention done; the will’s act of satisfaction in
intention fulfilled.
• Consent
• Election
• Use
• Fruition