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Test 2
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02/08/2008

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Human Acts
Definition
Involved in making chioces regarding right and wrong
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What Human Acts involve
Definition
Knowledge and consent
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Acts of Humans
Definition
Actions such as breathing, sneezing. They do not involve intellect and will
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Three Sources of the Morality of Human Acts
Definition
Object, Intention, Circumstances
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Object
Definition
Concerns the matter of the human act, or action itself
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What the morality of an act depends on
Definition
The object or the action itself
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Matter
Definition
The "what" we do.
Term
Intrinsically Evil
Definition
What some acts, of thier very nature, are.
Term
Intention
Definition
The purpose or motive for which a person performs a good or evil act
Term
Who the intention ivolves
Definition
Who is preforming the act
Term
What question the intention answers
Definition
Why
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A good intention can never make this act good
Definition
intrinsically evil action
Term
This never justifies the means
Definition
End
Term
What a persons inention must be
Definition
Good
Term
If an act had both an evil object and an evil intention, then the malice of the act
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increases
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What a good act can do to the guilt of a morally bad act; but it cannot make an intrinsically evil act good
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Reduce
Term
An act whose object is bad can never turn good with good _______ and _______
Definition
Intention and Circumstances
Term
Freedom makes us ________ for our actions, either good or bad.
Definition
Responsible
Term
Freedom gives us the power to choose between?
Definition
Good and Evil
Term
The basis of truly human acts
Definition
Freedom
Term
These people deny that humans have the power to choose
Definition
Determinists
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Self Determining
Definition
Means that we have the ability to select goals and then perform certain acts to accomplish them
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External Freedom
Definition
Liberates us from factors outside ourselves that lmit or destroy the power to choose
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Internal Freedom
Definition
Liberates s from interior factors that limit chioce
Term
License
Definition
Unlimited freedom
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You can only be held accountable for your ______ action since _______actions are out of our control
Definition
Voulantary, Invoulentary
Term
Things that can diminish or nullify imputablility and responsibility for actions
Definition
Ignorance, inadvertance, duress, fear, habit, unhealthy attachments
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