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Mans acts must be for an end Human acts proceed from a deliberate will Every agent acts for an end The principle in the intention is the last end All have the same last end The last end is called happiness I.II.3.1
All
Three
Appetite Intelligence
and Appetite
Indirect
Effect Act which produces the effect is not itself an evil act A good effect issues from the act at least as immediately as the evil effect The good must not arise from the evil effect The agent must have a morally justifying reason for action, commensurate with the evil effect
Power
or capacity Intellect-Formal Cause I-II, 9, a.1-The good generally is the object Truth-The will always wants what the intellect identifies as good
Whatever befits our nature The ultimate end
The
act of the will bearing on the end Binds together a plurality of acts Looks to the end in three ways
Absolutely Enjoying Intention
Practical
Choice
Directing
the movement of appetite on something within the power of one doing the directing
Desiring things which lead to the end Consent and choice are different when there are
Patristic
and Medieval authors taught that infused virtues brought about a transformation in the person Virtues neglected Habitus-state of character Habitus and kenosis Habitus development
Virtue-good
operative habitus CCC-a habitual and firm disposition to do the good Three features of action under habitus
Promptness or readiness to act Ease or facility in performance of the action Joy or satisfaction while doing it
Overcoming
of the higher nature refers to the life of grace for the theologian
Infused moral virtues and theological virtues The acquired virtues are related to the broader
is a good quality of the mind by which one lives righteously, of which no one can make bad use, which God works within us without us. Habitus inferred from good quality of mind Christian virtue compared to art Substance and faculties of the soul
Augustine-virtue