Chap., §
1 2, 32 | primordial reality as an act of a person's intelligence,
2 2, 42 | dignity requires man to act through conscious and free
3 2, 43 | inclination to its proper act and end. This participation
4 2, 45 | inclines the affections to act with uprightness... Second,
5 2, 45 | inclines the affections to act".84 ~Even if moral-theological
6 2, 47 | understanding of the sexual act that contraception, direct
7 2, 48 | the subject and the human act. Their functions would not
8 2, 49 | which dissociates the moral act from the bodily dimensions
9 2, 49 | agent and in the deliberate act, they stand or fall together. ~
10 2, 55 | personal decision on how to act in particular cases. The
11 2, 59 | do, or which assesses an act already performed by him.
12 2, 59 | morality of a voluntary act, "applying the objective
13 2, 60 | imperative character: man must act in accordance with it. If
14 2, 60 | goodness of a determined act, still performs that act,
15 2, 60 | act, still performs that act, he stands condemned by
16 2, 61 | obligation to perform a given act, the link between freedom
17 2, 62 | Conscience, as the judgment of an act, is not exempt from the
18 2, 62 | even when it directs us to act in a way not in conformity
19 2, 63 | make the moral value of an act performed with a true and
20 2, 63 | to the moral value of an act performed by following the
21 2, 63 | good. Furthermore, a good act which is not recognized
22 2, 64 | point of the primordial act of faith. The Church puts
23 2, 65 | criteria proper to a human act. The conclusion to which
24 2, 66 | precisely the case when an act of faith — in the sense
25 2, 67 | recognized, the only morally good act is that of obeying the moral
26 2, 69 | only be the result of an act which engages the person
27 2, 69 | totality: in other words, an act of fundamental option. According
28 2, 69 | to be identified with an act of choice nor capable of
29 2, 69 | the person performing an act, rather than by the matter
30 2, 69 | than by the matter of that act. ~
31 2, 70 | familiar with cases in which an act which is grave by reason
32 2, 70 | reduce mortal sin to an act of 'fundamental option' —
33 2, 70 | we call mortal sin the act by which man freely and
34 2, 70 | equivalent way, as in every act of disobedience to God's
35 2 | IV. The moral act ~
36 2, 72 | between the moral value of an act and man's final end. Jesus,
37 2, 72 | safeguard human good.Only the act in conformity with the good
38 2, 72 | rational ordering of the human act to the good in its truth
39 2, 74 | the object itself of his act? ~This is what is traditionally
40 2, 75 | goods involved in a human act would be, from one viewpoint,
41 2, 75 | effects, the morality of an act would be judged in two different
42 2, 75 | choosing them. In this way, an act which, by contradicting
43 2, 75 | the proportion between the act and its effects and between
44 2 | object of the deliberate act ~
45 2, 76 | this or that particular act contrary to faith or virtue. ~
46 2, 77 | a result of a particular act. Responsibility demands
47 2, 77 | those circumstances of the act, which, while capable of
48 2, 77 | lessening the gravity of an evil act, nonetheless cannot alter
49 2, 78 | The morality of the human act depends primarily and fundamentally
50 2, 78 | to grasp the object of an act which specifies that act
51 2, 78 | act which specifies that act morally, it is therefore
52 2, 78 | person. The object of the act of willing is in fact a
53 2, 78 | object of a given moral act, then, one cannot mean a
54 2, 78 | decision which determines the act of willing on the part of
55 2, 78 | needed, is that the human act depends on its object, whether
56 2, 78 | perfection of the person. An act is therefore good if its
57 2, 78 | are respected. The human act, good according to its object,
58 2, 78 | ultimate end. That same act then attains its ultimate
59 2, 79 | foreseeable consequences of that act for all persons concerned. ~
60 2, 79 | the object of the human act, which establishes whether
61 2, 80 | are objects of the human act which are by their nature "
62 2, 80 | practices whereby the conjugal act is intentionally rendered
63 2, 81 | intentions can never transform an act intrinsically evil by virtue
64 2, 81 | virtue of its object into an act "subjectively" good or defensible
65 2, 82 | foreseeable consequences of that act for all persons concerned.
66 3, 88 | Jn 14:6). It entails an act of trusting abandonment
67 3, 91 | than perform the idolatrous act of burning incense before
68 3, 91 | performing even a single concrete act contrary to God's love and
69 3, 92 | exceptional" conditions, to an act morally evil in itself.
70 3, 92 | the true face of such an act: it is a violation of man'
71 3, 103 | imperfection of Christ's redemptive act, but to man's will not to
72 3, 103 | grace which flows from that act. God's command is of course
73 3, 112 | fact that some believers act without following the teachings
74 3, 113 | Pastors have the duty to act in conformity with their
75 Conc, 120| accompanied him in that supreme act of freedom which is the
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