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# Statistics (Data Management) - **Object** - Ignorance of law - existence of a duty - Fact - nature or circumstance - Penalty - knowledge of the sanction - **Subject** - Vincible Ignorance - conquerable ignorance - Invincible Ignorance - Ignorance that ordinary and pro...

# Statistics (Data Management) - **Object** - Ignorance of law - existence of a duty - Fact - nature or circumstance - Penalty - knowledge of the sanction - **Subject** - Vincible Ignorance - conquerable ignorance - Invincible Ignorance - Ignorance that ordinary and proper cannot dispel - Crass or supine - lack of effort - Vincible - culpable - Affected - positive effort - Result - Antecedent - before, during, after - Concominant - a factor that exists at the time - Consequent - what follows, typically as a result # Theology - **Preternatural Gifts** - **Original Justice** - Doctrine which teaches that the state of Adam and Eve before they sinned was one of holiness and justice - HP - Image and likeness of God - Dignity - Human person - original sin + injustice - **Preternatural Gifts** - Infused - Knowledge - Absence of concupiscence - inclination to sin - Bodily Immortality - undying - St. Thomas Aquinas - disorder in our natural appetite - Original sin - within the world, because of the fall of man - Original justice - the loss of original justice, both for them and for all their descendants as a result of the Fall, was later recovered through the atoning death of Jesus Christ - Sanctifying Grace - Jesus - dignified and elevated us - Blessing - sacraments through holy eucharist - Parousia - second coming of Christ - the wicked and the righteous will be separated # Understanding Man as a Person - Hierarchy of Being (St Thomas Aquinas) (Aristotelian Thomistic Hierarchy of Being) - God - Angels - Humans - Animals - Plants - Minerals - **Soul** - defined as "primus actus corporis physici organiçi" - First act of a physical original body - Principle of life - Any living being is the besouled being - **Operari Sequitur Esse** - **Operations** - Nutrition - Growth - Reproduction - Sensation - Locomotion (Rational, Moral) - Intellection - Volition - **Plants** - vegetative soul - **Animals** - sentient soul - **Human Soul** - rational & immortal soul - Crowning glory and dignity - Because Jesus Christ became the Entist of human being. # Individual Substance of a Rational Nature - **Individua Substantia** - an individual substance of a rational nature - **Naturae** - rational nature - **Rationals** (Capax Dei - capacity for God) - **Obediential Potency** - the natural facility given by God to us, enabling us to know God. - Human mind is in obediential potency to the knowledge of God. - **Human Person in Experience** (open and relational) - Social and gregarious by nature - We are being by, with, and for others. - Trinitarian in origin - Social well being and common good - God is the source and fulfillment of a human person's relationship - **Conscious Beings** - Possess self-awareness through our knowing and free willing. - We "image" in our small way - Reason understands the order of things and recognizes God. - **Embodied Spirits** - Stresses the unity between our body and soul. - Hylemorphic. # Theology - **GF** - Old Testament - **BS** - Descended to the dead (Limbo-hell) - **PS** - Purgatory or Eternal fire # Sanctified by the Holy Spirit - Paraclete - Holy Spirit - Man was created in God's image - He is the only creature on earth willed by God for its own sake. - As a person, a human being is capable of self knowledge and reflection of himself. - The fact that he is made in God's image and likeness therefore means also that a human being always remains related to God and can develop his full potential in God - Dignity - **Imago Dei** - **Redeemed** - **Sanctified** - **Intelligent Some Transcendet and Free Body** - **Saved by Christ** - **Made Holy** # Marlin Buber's Philosophy - The "I" cannot exist in isolation and always exists alongside other "I's." - **(I-Thou) or I-It Relationship** - **Monological Relationship** - consider the other as a mere instrument to achieve a need. - **Reduces the other to an object that is measurable and manipulatable. - **I-Thou Relationship** - **Dialogical Relationship** - The "thou" is not reducible to certain characteristics. - Views the other as a genuine person capable of feeling the same way as the self. - **Emmanuel Levinas** "the face of the other" we encounter others one at a time, face to face. - **Good Samaritan** - Sabbath day - **Levite** - worship/last - **High Priest** - work - **Samaritan** - **Nedan river** # Moral Good of Human Acts - **Nature of Human Acts** - An act which proceeds from the deliberate free will of man. - An act that you deliberately willed and consciously doing. - **Nature of Acts of Man** - an acts of sensation and appetition and acts that are not deliberate and free. - **Human Acts to Reason** - **Good** - **Evil** - **Indifferent** - you cannot tell if good or evil; indifferent in itself according to circumstances - **Constituent of Human Act** - Knowledge - Freedom - Voluntariness # Kinds of Voluntariness - **Perfect and Imperfect** - When the agent fully knows and fully intends the act - **Simple and Conditional** - Is present in a human act performed, whether the agent likes or dislikes doing it. - **Direct and Indirect** - **Direct voluntariness** (in se) - present in the human act willed in itself - **Indirect voluntariness** (in causa) - **Positive and Negative** - In a human act of doing # Determinants of Morality - **Object** (Finis operis) - **Intention** (Finis operantis) - **Circumstances** - **Person** (who?) - **Quantity or Quality** (what) - **Place** (where) - **Time** (when) - **End** (why) - **Means** (by what means) - **Manner** (how) # Principle of the Double Effect - Act <Good - Act itself is good - Good effect comes first - Intention must be honest - Brave reason for performing action - Evil - If one or more of the principles are violated. # Principle of Totality - Every person must maintain integrity. - **Integrity** - Anatomical integrity - All the parts of the human body. - Functional Integrity - when all the anatomical parts are normally functions. - **Forms of Human intervention** - **Major Mutilations** - renders the individual unfit for natural functions. - **Minor Mutilations** - lessening of the sum total of the body which does not destroy its functional integrity - **Modifiers of Human Acts** - **Ignorance** - absence of knowledge, negation of knowledge - Negative - Privative - Mistake - **Conisideration in Ignorance** - Object - Subject - Result