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SY 2011 - 2012
Man - Substantial Union of Body and Soul o Body - Material Component of Man Minerals Physical Biological Chemical (appetite) Plants Nutrition Growth Reproduction Animals Sensation a. Outer Senses 1. Sight 2. Hearing 3. Touch 4. Taste 5. Smell b. Inner Senses 1. Common Sense - awareness of sensation; synthesis of external and internal senses 2. Imagination - ability to picture material things in their absence 3. Memory - power of recalling past experiences 4. Recognition - ability to recognize 5. Instinct Locomotion - movement Appetite - wants, desires, urges Sensitivity - senses o Soul- Spiritual Component of Man Intellect - search for the truth - discern (deeper analysis and reflection) - task Will - choose what is right
Vegetative Soul - gives life to a plant Sensitive Soul - gives life to animals Human Soul - gives life to humans Proofs: 1. Existence - being alive 2. Spirituality - Intellect and Will 3. Immortality - Does not Decay
Spiritual Faculties 1. Intellect - TRUTH* Apprehensions - understandings Judgment - fairness Reasoning - Drawing conclusions 2. Will - GOOD* * Gain Ideas and Survive
PAT RIVERA
SY 2011 - 2012
wisdom virtue
Essential Attribute of Human Acts y Knowledge - must be performed by a conscious agent who knows what he is doing and its consequences y Free - performed by an agent who is acting under his own will y Voluntary or willed - performed willfully o Man has to consent to the so that it cannot occur. o Man takes the necessary steps for the act to happen. Determinants of Human Acts Morality - conformity and non-conformity of the human act with norms that determine its ordination to the last end; quality of the behavior being good or bad y Object - what the action by its intends to; the end of the action y Intention - the end intended by the agent of the act y Circumstances - accidental moral conditions that contribute to increase or diminish moral goodness/badness of an already existing action Nature of Morality of Human Acts 1. A thing is good when it functions to its nature or purpose. 2. A human act is good if it is ordained by the agent to his last end. 3. A human at is good if it is in conformity with the natural law (ultimate norm) and conscience (proximate norm).
Acts of Man Actions which man performs without his knowledge or consent Dependent on mans intellect and will
Kinds of Acts of Man y Unconscious - like breathing and beating of the heart y Involuntary - like sneezing y Semi-deliberate - done in sleep or delirium y Spontaneous - due to strong stimuli like noise
PAT RIVERA
SY 2011 - 2012
Only become Human Acts when man employs his intellect and will in performing the act Only Human Acts are subject to morality Man perfects himself through continual good acts Virtue - good habits Vices - bad habits
Human Dignity Phenomenological Aspects of a Person A. Self Determination y Man determines himself and not any other person. y Man charts his own destiny. y A person increases his individuality through self-determination. y The choices man makes on his own mold him as an individual. y Self-determination is only possible if man is not determined at the beginning. y The greater the indetermination, the greater the capacity to determine oneself, and the stronger will be the resulting individuality. B. Freedom y Man is free because he is the master of his own actions. y Self-determination is an immediate consequence of freedom. y Man is the master of his inner life and manifestation. y He is the master of his life and his destiny; he chooses both. C. Intimacy y Intimacy is to have an interior world open to oneself and hidden from the other. y It is to have something within that only one knows. y It is personal. y No one knows my thoughts unless I express them. y What a person thinks and will is immanent to him. y Intimacy is the greatest manifestation of immanence. y There is a natural sentiment that protects it: shame or modesty. y Shame or modesty gives rise to the concept of privacy, wherein others are not welcome. y The most important characteristic of intimacy: it is not static but something alive. y Intimacy has a creative capacity. y It is capable of growing. y No interior world is the same with another. y Each one is something unrepeatable, incommunicable. y Nobody can be who I am. y The person is an absolute in the sense that he is unique and cannot be reduced to anything.
PAT RIVERA