| A | B |
|---|
| acts of a human | acts accomplished without knowledge or deliberation. |
| ascesis | rigorous self discipline. |
| full knowledge | the clear and deliberate knowledge of the merit or sinfulness of an action. it is required as a condition before a person can be guilty of a sin. |
| human act | an act that is performed with both knowledge and free will. Human acts, depending upon the degree of knowledge and freedom involved in their commission, are either morally good or morally evil. |
| ignorance | the lack of required knowledge. |
| indifferent acts | actions which have no moral virtue in themselves, but depend on the intention of the agent and the circumstances that surround them for their moral value. |
| indirect responsibility | the attribution of the effect that secondarily follows a free act. |
| partial knowledge | knowledge that is obscured by the presence of some obstacle interfering with a moral judgement. |
| prudence | the ability to make and carry out correct moral decisions. |
| responsibility | the demand for an account of one's acts before oneself and before a superior authority. It includes accepting the consequences of one's actions. |
| violence | the coercion of an external force against a person's will. |
| antecedent judgement of conscience | judgement that precedes an action. |
| autonomous morality | the belief that conscience is the only moral authority. |
| certain conscience | conscience that issues a judgement in certainty that may or may not be correct. |
| concomitant judgement of conscience | judgement that accompanies an action as it is taking place. |
| conscience | conscience is a judgement of reason whereby a human person recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act that he is going to perform, is in the process of performing, or has already been completed. |
| consequent judgement of conscience | moral judgement made after the act. |
| doubtful conscience | judgement of conscience that occurs when there is doubt about the good or evil of an act done or omitted. |
| erroneous conscience | judgement of conscience that does not correspond with what the law or norm requires. The ignorance may be vincible or invincible when the content of the law is unknown. |
| heteronomous morality | absolute dependence of conscience on laws. |
| invincible ignorance | ignorance that cannot be overcome by ordinary diligence. |
| lax conscience | a conscience that formulates moral judgements on insufficient grounds. It judges mortal sins as venial sins, and venial sins as no sins at all.l |
| mortal rectitude | correctness of method of judgement |
| scrupulous conscience | a conscience that judges an action to be morally evil when in fact it is not. |
| true conscience | objectively coincides with the application of the moral law. |
| vincible ignorance | ignorance that can be overcome by ordinary diligence. |
| civil law | the law promulgated by civil authority. |
| ecclesiastical law | the law that directs that life and worship of the church. |
| eternal law | God's wisdom as manifested in all acts and movements. |
| human law | law promulgated by human authority, either civil or ecclesiastical. |
| immutability | non-changing. |
| law (just law) | an ordinance of reason for the common good, corresponding to divine law and promulgated by one who has care of the community. |
| laws of nature | descriptions of the behavior of the material universe. |
| positive law | laws created by the proper authority that enjoin specific allegations upon individuals. |
| universality | the ability to be applied to everyone. |
| unjust law | human laws that contradict or fail to conform to divine or natural law. |
