Ethics and Human Acts Quiz

Ethics and Human Acts

• Ethics is a branch of philosophy that deals with the study of human actions, whether they are good, bad, moral, or immoral.
• The Greek word for ethics is "Ethos".

Human Acts

• Human acts are actions performed by a person knowingly, freely, and voluntarily.
• Acts of man, on the other hand, are actions performed involuntarily and unintentionally.

Morality

• Moral actions are those that are described as good.
• Immoral actions are those that are described as bad.
• Amoral actions are those that are described as indifferent, neither good nor bad.

Modifiers of Human Acts

• Modifiers of human acts are factors that influence a person's disposition towards certain actions.

Ends of Human Acts

• The end of the act refers to the natural termination or completion of an activity.
• The end of the doer refers to the motive or reason why a person performed an act.
• Proximate end is the purpose that the doer wishes to accomplish immediately.
• Remote end is the purpose that the doer wishes to accomplish sometime later.

Good and Evil

• Apparent good is an evil viewed as good.
• Summum Bonum is the greatest good, according to Aristotle.

Morality and Actions

• Morality is the quality of human acts that constitutes them as good, bad, or indifferent.
• Internal actions are those actions performed mentally.
• External actions are those actions performed bodily.
• Elicited act is a kind of human act performed by the will but not externalized.
• Commanded act is a kind of human act performed mentally and bodily under the command of the will.
• Moral actions are those that are in conformity with the norms of morality.
• Immoral actions are those that are not in conformity with the norms of morality.