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| extrinsic aspects of a common human act |
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| indirect unintended effects of a common human act |
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| remote end primarily intended by the agent |
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| Intrinsic moral evils, Inherently privative moral acts |
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| slavery, deportation, adultery, fornication, incest, direct abortion, arbitrary imprisonment |
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| environment/family habituation, social pressure, duress/force, emergency, non-culpable ignorance, inadvertance/vs. negligence, fear, habit, attachment |
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| proximate end secondarily intended by the agent, freely chosen means |
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| 1) interior acts-presentation/appetites 2) will 3) attraction 4) intention 5) counsel(prudence comes into play) 6) choice 7) consent 8) command-exterior acts 9) execution 10) use 11) attainment 12) enjoyment |
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| who, what, why, by what assistances, where, when, how |
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| closely relates moral prudence with jurisprudence |
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Charity - perfection of the will to do good for others
Hope - perfects the will in endurance
Faith - perfects the human intellect in truth |
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| civil/political virtue vs. Christian moral virtue |
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| Civil Virtue concerns the end of the political common good, perfects the person as a citizen in the "city of man". can coexist with mortal sin and lack of charity. "city of man" vs. "city of God" |
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| those aspects of the individual moral act which are inherent to the exterior moral act as an object of free choice and can be commonly evaluated )the object of adultery involves the condition "spouse of another" in relation to the aspect "who" |
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| Grave Culpability (mortal sin) |
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| must be grave matter, full knowledge, their will has to choose that act freely |
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| Pardonable Culpability (venial sin) |
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| object is intrinsic evil, possible moral ignorance |
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| Concerns whether bad indirect consequences are attributable, ascribable to a responsible agent |
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| father leaves his baby in the car to run into grocery store, no intended evil, but baby dies bc of heat exhaustion. |
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| apparent, counterfeit virtue. It is false because Christ is not the final intention |
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| gives primary emphasis to the agents intention of a remote end in moral evaluation (abelard) |
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| those aspects of an individual moral act which are extrinsic to the external moral act as a common object of free choice (the circumstances "where" for murder) |
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| imputability criteria for indirect bad effects |
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| 1) negligence 2) culpable ignorance 3) foreseeability and possible avoidance 4) disproportionate means |
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| 1) Justice-irascibility/perfection of human will to desire what is fair 2) Temperance-concupisence 3) Fortitude-the will 4) Prudence-practical intellect/discerns the best means to attain a desired end |
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Proportionalism (teaches that that choice is morally right which involves the greater proportion of good consequences in contrast to bad consequences)
Utilitarianism (emphasizes the utility of means in securing the greatest good for the greatest number) |
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| Results of Grave Imputability (mortal sin) |
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| Destroys charity of the human soul, loss of sanctifying grace, loss of the beatific vision |
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| belief that commonalities (moral good/evil) are just words and concepts |
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| gives primary emphasis to the genuine circumstances of the individual moral act (like circumstantialism) |
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| a habit, an excellence. 3 kinds -- moral/cardinal-involves a mean between excess and defect established by human intelligence and God, theological-does not involve a mean |
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