15 August 2019

The Catechism of the Summa - The Second Part: VI. OF WHAT IS IMPLIED IN A HUMAN ACT FOR IT TO BE A GOOD MERITORIOUS ACT, OR A BAD DEMERITORIOUS ACT; AND OF MERIT AND DEMERIT IN GENERAL (E)

(E)
Whence is derived the goodness of an object, of an end, and of the circumstances?

This goodness is derived from the relation that all these things have with right reason (XIX. 3-6).

What is meant by right reason?

By this is understood the reason enlightened by all the lights that come from God, or which at least is not knowingly at variance with them.

When man then wills or chooses something in conformity with right reason for an object or an end of which right reason approves, and of which all the accompanying circumstances accord with right reason, the act willed or chosen man is a good act?

Yes; then, and then only, is man's act a good act. on any one of these counts whatsoever man's act is conformed with right reason it ceases to be a good and it becomes in a less or great degree, as the case be, a bad act (XVIII.-XXI.).

What is a bad act called?

A bad act is called a "fault" or a "sin" (XXI. 1). 


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