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The Moral Act

Keegan Sawin English

Mind map: the moral act

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The Moral Act

Freedom
- Doing what one ought to do
- Good moral actions
  - every human held accountable
    - knowledge and responsibility are linked
  - deliberation, moral content, and consequences to character
  - moral freedom
- responsibility
- afraid of freedom, want it to be easy
- can lead to moral evil
  - man rejects God's will
    - possibility of lessening moral faults
      - ignorance
        not knowing
      - inadvertence
        not noticing
      - duress
        being put under
      - fear
        being afraid
      - habit
        doing something habitually
      - inordinate attachment
        something that goes beyond reason
Grace
- received through Sacraments
  - strengthen our will to do God's will
    - our will and God's will are aligned
  - helps control passions
- sanctifying
- actual
- sought continually
  - inclines us towards God
Conscience
- shown in Scripture and human experience
- applied moral truth
  - enlightened by God
- fails when objective law is ignored
  - repentance
    - contrition
    - purpose of amendment
  - we are numb to wrongdoing
- not infallible
- must be educated
  - self examination
  - delicate guide
    - must be listened to sensitively
an action that results from a deliberate choice between good and evil (or degrees of goodness)