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This document discusses various concepts related to passion and morality: 1) Passions are in themselves amoral but become moral or immoral depending on whether the will and reason command them. Good passions help virtue, bad passions enable evil. 2) Passions can be antecedent, arising spontaneously, or consequent, deliberately aroused by the will. Antecedent passions lessen freedom while consequent passions do not. 3) Violence is an external force compelling an action against one's will. If resisting violence, the evil act is not culpable, but if resistance is useless, there is no obligation to resist though showing lack of consent is good. 4) Habits are incl

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Written Report Ethics

This document discusses various concepts related to passion and morality: 1) Passions are in themselves amoral but become moral or immoral depending on whether the will and reason command them. Good passions help virtue, bad passions enable evil. 2) Passions can be antecedent, arising spontaneously, or consequent, deliberately aroused by the will. Antecedent passions lessen freedom while consequent passions do not. 3) Violence is an external force compelling an action against one's will. If resisting violence, the evil act is not culpable, but if resistance is useless, there is no obligation to resist though showing lack of consent is good. 4) Habits are incl

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C.

CONCUPISCENCE/PASSION:
C . CONCUPISCENCE/PASSION A movement of the sensitive appetite which is produced by good or evil as
apprehended by the mind. Strong tendencies towards the possession of something good or towards the avoidance of
something evil. Movements of passions are usually called feelings

St. Thomas Aquinas:


St. Thomas Aquinas Passions are in themselves amoral. But if they are subject to the command of will and reason,
then moral good and evil are in them.

PowerPoint Presentation:
GOOD When ordered by the will to help man and woman in the practice of virtue Sorrow over the death of a friend is
good because it empathizes with the bereaved family Fear of getting drunk is good. BAD when used by the will to
accomplish morally evil actions Using courage to rob a bank Anger is bad when…

TYPES OF PASSION:
TYPES OF PASSION ANTECEDENT Arises spontaneously before the will controls the situation Sudden feelings of
joy, hatred, pity, grief, anger, as reactions to news, objects, etc. CONSEQUENT Deliberately aroused by the will to
ensure a more prompt and willing operation Continuously brooding over an insult, attacks the enemy and kills him

PRINCIPLES:
PRINCIPLES Antecedent passions do not destroy freedom , but lessens freedom and hence the responsibility of the
agent because it tends to blind judgment of the intellect and freedom of the will.

PRINCIPLE:
PRINCIPLE Consequent passions do not lessen voluntariness but may increase it because these passions are
deliberately excited.

D. VIOLENCE:
D. VIOLENCE An external force applied by someone on another in order to compel him to perform an action against
his will.

PRINCIPLES :
PRINCIPLES If one resists the violence as much as possible, the evil act to which one is forced is not culpable. A
man forces a young girl to have sex with him. The girl fights back, nevertheless, since the man is stronger than the
girl, he succeeds in doing his evil intention. In this case, the young girl is not responsible for the act.

PRINCIPLES :
PRINCIPLES If one sees that any resistance would be wholly ineffective, there is no obligation to resist. The reason
is one is not obliged to do what is useless. Though a little resistance may be useful to show lack of consent to the
violence being done. A bank cashier and his two bodyguards are held up by ten heavily armed men.

HABITS:
HABITS Are inclination to perform some particular action acquired by repetition, and characterized by a decrease
power of resistance and an increase facility of performance. Sometimes called second nature; something deeply
embedded in an individual, but ingrained by being acquired not being inborn Repeated actions performed by the
agent.

HABIT:
HABIT VIRTUE Disposes to god VICE Disposes one to evil

HABIT:
HABIT Evil habits do not lessen the imputability of evil actions performed by force of habit if the habit has been
recognized as evil and is freely permitted to continue. Evil habits lessen the imputability of evil actions performed by
force of habit if one is sincerely trying to correct the habit.

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