RLT 48500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Vincible Ignorance, Concupiscence, Attention
2 Apr 2016
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Knowledge : the will can decide for something and seek it only if it is irst known. A human act proceeds from the deliberate will. No human act therefore is possible without knowledge. Freedom : freedom can be deined as the ability to airm one"s own being in spite of all internal impulse and external pressure (g. s. , 17). Voluntariness : a voluntary act is an act which proceeds from free will acting in the light of knowledge: impairments. Impairments of required knowledge: ignorance is lack of the knowledge which man should have of his moral duties. Divided by reason of subject reason of object vincible invincible afected ignorance of the law ignorancr of the fact. Ignorance of law- is lack of knowledge that a particular law exists, as when a driver does not know there is a 40mile per hour limit for a particular road.
