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WorksheetsResponsibility and Conscience
Total questions: 51
Worksheet time: 45mins
I am not willing to cheat.
Involuntary Act
Voluntary Act
I am willing not to cheat.
Involuntary Act
Voluntary Act
This level of intention is one that a person is conscious of at the moment he performs the intended action.
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This level of intention is one that was once made and continues to influence the act now being done, but is not present to the person's consciousness at the moment of performing the act.
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This level of intention has no bearing of the act and is once made, but not retracted. It does not influence on the performance of the intended act.
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This level of intention is one that has not been made but presumably would have been made if the person were aware of the circumstances. It is the intention that is made after the act is done.
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This affects the knowledge and is the lack of knowledge that exists in varying degrees.
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This ignorance is the requisite for voluntariness, and in this case, knowledge is not obtainable. This act is involuntary.
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This ignorance is that one knows he's ignorant and that he can therefore gain knowledge by doing so. It can be overcome by acquiring the requisite knowledge.
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This ignorance is that making ignorance as an excuse in order to avoid responsibility.
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It affects the consent of the will and any strong emotion of the sensitive appetite.
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Passions may arise in what under circumstance?
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This kind of passion comes before the will can act. They often occur in us without our will or again our will. This is but an act of a man.
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This passion is so sudden or violent as wholly to prevent the use of reason, it makes deliberation impossible and the act performed under its influence is neither free nor voluntary.
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Passion that is deliberately aroused, where one can intentionally stir up by brooding on the object. It is a human act.
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The opposing to the will a contrary wish and is the apprehension of impending evil.
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The actual use of physical compulsion. It is an external physical power making one do something against his will.
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This is the tendency acquired by repetition, a constant way of acting the same act.
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This says that it is morally allowable to perform an act that has a bad effect under the following conditions.
(a)
If a voluntary wills to do something.
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If a voluntary wills to omit something.
(a)
If the voluntariness has full knowledge and consent
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If the voluntariness has some flaws in ones knowledge, or consent, or both.
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An indirect evil that is a word or deed leading another to wrong-doing.
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An evil that is helping another to do wrong by joining him in the act or by supplying him with the means.
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This type of cooperation of evil is if we intend the evil, it cannot be justified in any circumstances due to it being directly willed.
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This type of cooperation of evil is if we did not intend to do the evil, without intending it, but actually assisted in its performance by an act of our own which is not of its nature evil.
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Cooperation can be both:
(a, b)
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This condition of the principle of double effect says that: "If this is evident, for if the act is evil of itself, evil would be chosen directly, either as end or as a means to an end, and there could be no question of merely permitting or tolerating it."
The act to be done must be good in itself or at least indifferent
The good intended must not be obtained by means of the evil effect
The evil must not be intended for itself but only permitted
There must be a proportionately grave reason for permitting the evil effect
This condition of the principle of double effect says that: "If the evil must be only an incidental by-product and not an actual factor in the accomplishment of the good. If the acts has two effects, one good and the other bad, the good effect must not be accomplished by means of the bad, for then the evil would be directly voluntary as a means."
The act to be done must be good in itself or at least indifferent
The good intended must not be obtained by means of the evil effect
The evil must not be intended for itself but only permitted
There must be a proportionately grave reason for permitting the evil effect
This condition of the principle of double effect says that: "If the bad effect may be of its own nature merely a by-product of the act performed, but if the agent wants this bad effect he makes it directly voluntary by willing it. An evil intention is not to be presumed without evidence."
The act to be done must be good in itself or at least indifferent
The good intended must not be obtained by means of the evil effect
The evil must not be intended for itself but only permitted
There must be a proportionately grave reason for permitting the evil effect
This condition of the principle of double effect says that: "If we are obliged to prevent serious evil by a small sacrifice of our own good. Hence some proportion between the good and evil is required."
The act to be done must be good in itself or at least indifferent
The good intended must not be obtained by means of the evil effect
The evil must not be intended for itself but only permitted
There must be a proportionately grave reason for permitting the evil effect
Invincible ignorance
Destroys responsibility
Lessens responsibility
Increases responsibility
Vincible ignorance
Destroys responsibility
Lessens responsibility
Increases responsibility
Fear
Destroys responsibility
Lessens responsibility
Increases responsibility
Force
Destroys responsibility
Lessens responsibility
Increases responsibility
Habit
Destroys responsibility
Lessens responsibility
Increases responsibility
Antecedent passion
Destroys responsibility
Lessens responsibility
Increases responsibility
A reflective knowledge of ones responsibility.
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This renders a decision, it is always appealed for and is our own voice.
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A function of the practical intellect
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Conscience can be either both?
(a, b)
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The quality in human acts by which we call them right, wrong or good, evil. A common term of concerning the goodness or badness of a human act without specifying which of the two is meant.
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Morality so considered is this and is determined by whether the act agrees or disagrees with the agent's own conscience.
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Conscience decision is always ______, but does not mean it is always ______.
(a, b)
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The conscience that prompts us to do them or to avoid them, a guide to future actions.
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The conscience that judge our past actions, the source of our self-approval or remorse.
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This kind of conscience judges as good what is really good, or as evil as what is really evil.
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This kind of conscience judges as good what is really evil, or as evil as what is really good.
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This kind of conscience judges without fearing that the opposite may be true.
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This kind of conscience either hesitates to make any judgements at all, or does make judgements, but with misgivings that the opposite may be true.
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