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The document discusses elements of human acts and how they differ from acts of man. It defines human acts as free and conscious acts performed by human persons, while acts of man are shared with animals and based on sensory impulses. Some key points made are that human acts require deliberation, freedom and volition. The morality of an act depends on the act itself as well as the intention and circumstances involved. Ignorance and habits can modify human acts, with invincible ignorance being forgivable.

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The document discusses elements of human acts and how they differ from acts of man. It defines human acts as free and conscious acts performed by human persons, while acts of man are shared with animals and based on sensory impulses. Some key points made are that human acts require deliberation, freedom and volition. The morality of an act depends on the act itself as well as the intention and circumstances involved. Ignorance and habits can modify human acts, with invincible ignorance being forgivable.

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Questions

1. What makes an act truly human?

- Actions that make act of truly human if there is free will also done by a person in a certain
situation

2. What are the various elements of a human act?

- The various elements of human act are:

 the act must be deliberate

 the act must be performed In freedom

 the act must be done voluntarily

3. Distinguish human acts from acts of man

- Human acts are the free and conscious act of human person which are proper to humans alone.
While, the Acts of man are those humans share with animals whose actions and movements emanate
from purely sensual nature.

4. What determines the morality of a human act?

- It determines by the act itself, the intention and the situations.

5. How do we know whether one is morally responsible for his/her actions?

- We can know if is responsible of his/her actions but if he didn’t such of his ignorance is vincible
in which it is correctable.

6. What are the various modifiers of human acts?

- The various modifiers of human acts are ignorance, Passion, Fear, Violence and Habit

7. What are the two types of ignorance? Which one is forgivable?

- The two types of ignorance are: Vincible ignorance and Invincible ignorance. Invincible
ignorance is forgivable because he/she is not aware of his actions.

8. What are the various principles governing fear and violence? Can one be held morally liable by
acting out of fear because of violence? Why or why not?

- The various principles of fear are voluntarily and involuntarily fear. The agent can’t be held
morally liable. In fact, it is relative violence you can be morally liable because gave consent to a person.
9. What are the two types of passion? Which one we still have moral accountability?

- Antecedent and consequent are the two types of passion. The moral of accountability is the
consequent passion because he still has the control of it. He is still aware that is not good to do things
but in fact, he is still continue.

10. What are the principles governing habit? When does a habit become voluntary?

- The principles governing a habit are opposed and voluntarily if the habit is not corrected a
habit become voluntarily, evil actions done by force of that habit thus, person is concerned said by
Agapay.

Things to do

1. Make a list of specific actions that can be classified as human acts, as well as actions that can
be considered as acts of man. Provide a justification for your list.

 Human acts

- Helping other people

- Telling the truth

- Giving food to the homeless

- Finishing household chores

- Going to the church

 Acts of man

- Hearing

- Blinking of eyes

- Dreaming

- Listening

- smelling
2. Cite a particular case where the person/s involved acted out of ignorance. Point out what kind
of ignorance is present. Then assess the moral responsibility of the person/s Concerned.

- There is a tourist who did not walk in a pedestrian lane in Butuan city. In fact, the city
government put a policy that people must walk in the pedestrian lane for their safety purposes and it
the signal is for the people then he/she should walk first across the road and it causes disobedience by
not obeying the policy

3. Evaluate the morality of "Fake News" by applying both the elements of human act,
determinants of morality and the modifiers of human act.

- In acquiring the morality of “Fake news” if we try to deepen our understanding knowledge
is easier to acquire in which it is adding more information along a tangent of though. Wisdom is the
result of interconnection of interconnection of the knowledge one possesses or assimilates.

Exercise

1 Concisely defines the following:

Human Act

-Can be morally good or morally evil.

-Actions that proceed from insight into the nature and purpose of one's doing and from consent of free will.

Act of Man

-Action beyond once consciousness; not dependent on the intellect and the will.

-Acts accomplished without knowledge or deliberation perform like animals

2. What are the five modifiers of human act?

1. Ignorance 4. Violence

2. Passion or Concupiscence 5. Habit

3. Fear

1. State Concisely four principles under the motive or intention.

a. An indifferent act is any action that is neither good nor evil.

b. just good act becomes evil due to bad motive.

c. An inherently doing good act can take morality

d. an innately evil act it never turn in good even they do in good motive.
2. Enumerate and briefly describe the four types of circumstances that affect the morality of the act.

1. Mitigating or extenuating circumstances

extenuating is reasons why what you did is not so bad. ... Mitigating circumstances under the law are facts or
factors that might lead a court or finder of fact to believe the act was less harmful or less of a transgression than it
might be absent those facts.

2. Aggravating circumstances -refers to factors that increases the severity or culpability of a criminal act.

3. Justifying Circumstances- where the act of a person is in accordance with law such that said person is
deemed not to have violated the law.

4. Specifying circumstances- give a new and distinct species of moral good or evil of the act.

TRUE AND FALSE

1FALSE 11.FALSE 21 TRUE

2 FALSE 12 F ALSE 22 FALSE

3TRUE 13 TRUE 23 TRUE

4TRUE 14 TRUE 24 FALSE

5FALSE 15 TRUE 25 FALSE

6TRUE 16 TRUE

7TRUE 17 FALSE

8FALSE 18 TRUE

9FALSE 19 TRUE

10TRUE 20 FALSE

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