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Impediments to morality
This document outlines various impairments to morality and free consent. It discusses types of ignorance like invincible and vincible ignorance. It also examines error, inattention, passion, fear, violence, dispositions and habits. Specific types of each impairment are defined, such as antecedent and consequent concupiscence under passion. The document provides definitions and classifications for these different impairments.
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- 1. Impediments to Morality Aligam,Monica Boñon, Ellen
- 2. Impairments of Required Knowledge •Ignorance • Error • Inattention
- 3. Ignorance • Lack ofknowledge about a thing • Can be divided into 2 – Invincible • Ignorance cannot be dispelled by any means – Vincible • Ignorance that can be dispelled(avoided) • Voluntary in cause or is provoked by conscious negligence
- 4. Vincible Ignorance • Simple –Exists when one uses some, but not enough diligence in an effort to remove ignorance • Crass or Supine – Though not directly willed, could and should be cleared up but left wholly undisturbed (caused by negligence or laziness) • Affected – Deliberately fostered in order to avoid any obligation that knowledge might bring to light
- 5. Error • False judgementor conviction • Arises from deficient education, bad company, or misleading information
- 6. Inattention • Refers tomomentary deprivation of insight
- 7. Impairments to FreeConsent • Passion • Fear and Social Pressures • Violence • Dispositions and Habits
- 8. Passion or Concupiscence •Movement of the sensitive appetite that precedes the free decision of the will. • Can be divided into 2 (Concupiscence) – Antecedent Concupiscence – Consequent Concupiscence • Can be divided into 2 (Passion) – Concupiscible – Irascible
- 9. Concupiscence • Antecedent Concupiscence –Precedes the act of the will and is not willfully stimulated by the will. – Ex: Sudden feeling of joy, hatred, pity, grief, anger, etc. as reactions to news and objects presented to the senses • Consequent Concupiscence – Deliberately aroused by the will to ensure a more prompt and willing operation.
- 10. Passion • Concupiscible – Passionthrough which the soul is simply inclined to seek what is suitable according to the senses and fly away from what is hurtful. • Irascible – Resists the attacks of any agents that hinder what is suitable and inflict harm. – Tendency to overcome and rise above obstables.
- 11. Fear and SocialPressures • Mental trepidation due to an impending evil – Grave fear • Aroused by the presence of a danger that is regarded by most people as serious. – Slight fear • Aroused by danger that is not serious and a grave danger that is not very probable.
- 12. Violence • Violence iscaused by some physical or psychic agent. • There is no imputability, except insofar as the inner will may have consented or external resistance have fallen short of the degree necessary and possible in the circumstance.
- 13. Violence • Perfect – Onein which complete resistance is given. • Imperfect – When some resistance is shown but not as much as should be.
- 14. Disposition and Habits •Facility and readiness of acting in a certain manner acquired by repeated acts. • Deliberately admitted habits do not lessen voluntariness and actions resulting therefrom are voluntary at least in their cause. • Habit weakens intellect and will.