Revenge of the Conscience

-People act to pursue an end.

-An act has an end to itself.
-You pursuing an end is the same as the end of the act in itself.
-Conscience starts banging you when judging the act.
-Conscience doesnt keep quiet.
-You decide on how you want to act.
-We can never blame the environment.
-We need to know the right and the wrong.
-Accept the fact whether right or wrong.
-Suppress the voice of conscience.
-Suppressing it doesnt stop it from coming back with a vengeance.
-Light of reason is never extinguished.
-When conscience takes revenge, theres guilt and denial.
-Do good acts with the right intention.
-There is a time lag between remorse and the act.
-Our actions have consequences.
-Confession leads to amendment.
-There needs to be reformation done.
-Every action has a equal opposite.
-Its not enough to give up because the conscience demands retribution.
-Punishment is ideal for the act we did.
-Man is made for the truth.
-Anything that contradicts the presence for truth doesnt make us happy.
Summa Contra Gentiles
Chapter 2
-Reaching the end, attains the end.
-Not reaching the end leads to frustration.
-We aim for reaching the end.
-Well be able to reach the end as long as we know how to handle them.
-MScM: youre employees will perform well if you know how to handle them
well.
-The intended consequences are the results of the act being done.
-Before acting, deliberate on the end of the action.
-We are responsible for the act.
-Some actions produce unintended consequences.
-End could be the action itself or something else.
-The end can be intended by the act itself.
-You cannot judge the intention but you can judge the action.

-Action intends to the end.

-Actions must be immediate in order to be intended for an end.
-For an act to be produced, those actions must have been intended.
-Everything has been thought of already.
-God is our end and we should attain it.
-If God isnt our end, then we didnt attain the end.
-Reaching the end leads to satisfaction.
-The resultant action may not be intended.
-No action would have taken place unless it is intended.
-The ends can coincide but not always the case.
-If the end intended isnt the case, the agent becomes culpable.
-There is no act if there is no end.
-The act performed means the act was willed thus the person is culpable.
-For an action to be good, the ends must be good.
-The end of the agent doesnt change the one of the act.
-The culpability/merit is based on the end.
-A person who is not capable of performing an action not related to his
position, its not the fault of the person.
-If you dont have the skill, dont do it and just ask for the expertise of the
real person.
-A person acting with no goal will not succeed in life.
-There are some actions for an end while there are some that arent.
-There must be indicators.
Chapter 3
-You must tend to something appropriate.
-There is perfection in the act done.
-Consider: If the end is bad and the intention is good, how come it isnt good?
-Ex: Hitting out of self-defense
-Its good for you but not good for the others.
-Focusing on the intention and not the consequences of the action.
-Look for the moral perfection of the action.
-In the end, the will perverted the truthfulness of the action.
-Everything is good.
-Its up to the person.
-The person could damage the self depending on the extent of the action.
-The end doesnt justify the means.
-You doing the act is like you twisting your nature.
-Consider: do the acts perfect the person or not.
-Consider: How come circumstances could affect an action or not?
-There are circumstances that make the act better but it could also diminish

the perfection of the act.

-Circumstances are add-ons to the act.
-Good = Object of Desire
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-Double effect = both effects have been foreseen.
-Four conditions must be met for it to be indifferent: Act not good shouldnt
be performed. Evil effect shouldnt be intended, Evil effect must come from
the real effect,
-Evil effect is the consequence of the good effect.
-Do people intend evil things?
-We do not intend the evil effect.
-Evil is a result apart from the intention.
-Source of the action is the will.
-Intellect shows will the good.
-Will is meant for the good and not meant for what isnt good.
-Defect of the will leads to evil.
-The will must be trained to recognise the good.
-Everything is ontologically good because everything is good.
-Attaining the object is attaining the ontological perfection.
-Good actions results to operational perfection.
-Good -> Good
-Consider: How come there are goods that arent perfected of persons?
-Consider: How come persons are attracted to perform what isnt good?
-Answer to 2: Defective Will = Not trained to grasp the proper good.
-Determination of what is good is personal.
-Our actions and choices are conditioned by time/space frame.
-Actions form the person you are and you ought to be.
-Depends on the object intended to be pursued.
-Not all things are permissible to everyone.
-Not all things is what everybody should refrain themselves from.
-The will must be trained to detect the good.
-Acting for pleasure may not be proper.
-Aristotle: Acting for the good is pleasurable and useful.
-We cannot attain everything wanted.
-We intend the end of the action per se.
-Evil could be accidentally intended. The effect could not be intended.
-2 kinds: Physical, Moral
-Moral Evil is an evil that is willed per se since evil is intended.
-Evil makes us suffer.
-Evil deprives something thats due to a person.

-Evil is willed.
-Evil = privation of something which the agent ought to possess.
-Privation = Negation in the substance.
-Evil is an accident that it inheres in a substance.
-Evil takes away the order of reason.
-Once you will an evil per se, the intellect is being deprived of the real truth.
-Actions are justified.
-Changing things acquire the disposition of things that are less noble.
-We are the authors of evil. Evil is natural in itself.
-Evil = Irrational Animal
-Evil deprives people of perfection.
-More deprived of good, more we tend towards evil.
-Moral Perfection = Real Perfection since the person has control of his own.