| ### QUESTION 18 ### OF THE GOOD AND EVIL OF HUMAN ACTS, IN GENERAL ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider the good and evil of human acts. First, how a human act is good or evil; secondly, what results from the good or evil of a human act, as merit or demerit, sin and guilt. #### Under the first head there will be a threefold consideration: the first will be of the good and evil of human acts, in general; the second, of the good and evil of internal acts; the third, of the good and evil of external acts. #### Concerning the first there are eleven points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether every human action is good, or are there evil actions? #### (2) Whether the good or evil of a human action is derived from its object? #### (3) Whether it is derived from a circumstance? #### (4) Whether it is derived from the end? #### (5) Whether a human action is good or evil in its species? #### (6) Whether an action has the species of good or evil from its end? #### (7) Whether the species derived from the end is contained under the species derived from the object, as under its genus, or conversely? #### (8) Whether any action is indifferent in its species? #### (9) Whether an individual action can be indifferent? #### (10) Whether a circumstance places a moral action in the species of good or evil? #### (11) Whether every circumstance that makes an action better or worse, places the moral action in the species of good or evil? ####  |