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Prelim Exam in Ethics

This document contains a 20 question true/false quiz on concepts in ethics and moral philosophy. It focuses on defining key terms like human acts, voluntary acts, modifiers of acts, and types of ignorance. It also contains a short discussion question about how modifiers can affect the essential qualities of a human act and lessen the moral character and responsibility of the agent.

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Prelim Exam in Ethics

This document contains a 20 question true/false quiz on concepts in ethics and moral philosophy. It focuses on defining key terms like human acts, voluntary acts, modifiers of acts, and types of ignorance. It also contains a short discussion question about how modifiers can affect the essential qualities of a human act and lessen the moral character and responsibility of the agent.

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Prelim exam in Ethics/Moral Philosophy

Name: ____________________________________________

I. True or False. Write T if the statement is True or F if the statement is False.

1. A human act is an act which proceeds from deliberate free will of man.
2. Only the act that proceeds from knowing and free willing human being has the full character of
human act.
3. Man’s animal acts of sensation and appetition as well as acts that man performs indeliberately
or without advertence and the exercise of free choice, are called acts of man.
4. Ethics is not concerned with acts of man, but only human acts.
5. Some human acts find their adequate cause in the will alone.
6. The agreement or disagreement of human acts with the dictate of reason is called morality.
7. The threes essential qualities of human acts are knowledge, freedom, and voluntariness.
8. The will cannot act in the dark, for the will is “blind” faculty in itself.
9. Freedom is an act under control of the will.
10. Human act is a voluntary act. That is to say it is a will-act.
11. Deliberate lie is a perfectly voluntary act.
12. There are times that in a single cause, there is a good and at the same time an evil effect.
13. The evil effect must not proceed the good effect.
14. The modifiers of human acts lessen the moral character of the human act, and consequently
diminish the responsibility of the agent.
15. Ignorance is consists of absence of knowledge and the presence of what is falsely supposed to
be a knowledge.
16. Invincible ignorance is that ordinary and proper diligence cannot dispel.
17. Concomitant ignorance is that which accompanies an act that would have been performed even
if the ignorance did not exist.
18. Vincible ignorance does not destroy the voluntariness of an act.
19. Habits does not destroy the voluntariness; and acts from habit are always voluntary, at least in
cause, as long as the habit is allowed to endure.
20. An act done from fear however great, is simply voluntary, although it is regularly also
conditionally involuntary.

II. Discuss: (15 points)

In a human act, there are modifiers which may affect the essential qualities of knowledge, freedom
and voluntariness which can make a human act less perfectly human. These modifiers lessen the
moral character of the human act, and consequently diminish the responsibility of the agent.

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