Human Acts and Acts of Man

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HUMAN ACTS: · CHEATING · GOSSIPING · SHOPPING · PRAYING · ATTENDING MEETINGS ACTS OF MAN: · DREAMING · FARTING · BEATING OF YOUR HEART · URINATING · BREATHING

FARTING

URINATING

GOSSIPING

BREATHING

ATTENDING MEETINGS

CHEATING

PRAYING

SHOPPING

BEATING OF YOUR HEART

DREAMING

HUMAN ACTS

HUMAN ACTS:

• The human activity of man as man. Acts of the rationality of man. Involves understanding and free will. The agent becomes responsible and accountable for such an act. Can be morally good or morally evil.
• A human act is an act that proceeds from the deliberate free will of man. This free act is called human because it is an act that is proper to man as man. The human act (actus humanus) is an act of which man is master, one that is consciously controlled and deliberately willed, so that the man who performs it is responsible for it.

ACTS OF MAN

ACTS OF MAN:

• Human acts are to be distinguished from acts of man (actus hominis). Acts of man include man’s animal acts of sensation and appetition and acts that are not deliberate and free. An act of man is an act which man performs but he is not the master of it for he has not consciously controlled it, has not deliberately willed it, and is subsequently not responsible for it.
• happens independently of man’s will
• Some acts that human beings do are performed also by animals, e.g., vegetative acts and acts of perception and of emotion. When a human being does such acts, they are called acts of man but not human acts. Acts of man, therefore, are acts shared in common by man and other animals, whereas human acts are proper to human beings.

Ethics is not concerned with acts of man but only with human acts. Only human acts are moral acts for man is responsible only for them and such acts are imputed to him as worthy of praise or blame, of reward or punishment. Ethics is not concerned with the acts of man but only with human acts. Only human acts are moral acts for man is responsible only for them and such acts are imputed to him as worthy of praise or blame, of reward or punishment.