Influence of the Various Kinds of Ignorance on the Voluntariness of Acts.
The obstacles to consent are all those factors that take away or lessen the voluntarinessof an act.
In other cases it begins the moment that acceptance is entrusted to the agent of the offerer; (d) it must be free, that is, it must have the advertence and voluntariness necessary for a human act.
The influence of pathological states on the voluntariness of acts seems similar in kind to that ascribed to antecedent passion (see 48.
Coercion, as obstacle to consent, 40; effect on voluntariness of acts, 52.
Nevertheless, the resulting sin is diminished, even as the character of voluntariness is diminished.
Thirdly retaliation is transferred to voluntary commutations, where action and passion are on both sides, although voluntariness detracts from the nature of passion, as stated above (Q.
Remember that your eye is of all the senses most subject to the will, and therefore there is the more of duty or sin in it; for voluntariness is the requisite to morality, both good and evil.
Now the voluntariness of the entrance of Jesus Christ into the conditions of our human life is all-important for us, for it underlies the whole value of that life and its whole power to be blessing and good to us.
There is here, secondly, a manifestation of thevoluntariness of our Lord's suffering.
In accordance therewith, the fact of death is expressed by a phrase, which, though used for ordinary deaths, does yet naturally express the voluntariness of Christ.
The payment cannot be involuntary; for the law enjoining it, being the public and declared will of the nation, requires no other voluntariness but obedience, and judgeth no other thing involuntariness but disobedience.
On the other hand, ignorance which is the cause of the act, since it makes it to be involuntary, of its very nature excuses from sin, because voluntariness is essential to sin.
Voluntariness applies not only to the interior act of the will, but also to external actions, inasmuch as they proceed from the will and the reason.
Whether There Can Be Voluntariness Without Any Act?
So far as voluntariness remains in the ignorant person, the intention of sin remains in him: so that, in this respect, his sin is not accidental.
But it is not thus that voluntariness is in irrational animals, as stated above.
For we speak of voluntarinessand involuntariness in respect of the will.
Voluntariness requires an act of knowledge in the same way as it requires an act of will; namely, in order that it be in one's power to consider, to wish and to act.
Objection 1: It would seem that voluntariness cannot be without any act.
Whether there can be voluntariness without any action?
Voluntariness in treading the path that leads to it, and if so, there could have been no divine ordination of the end.
Clear knowledge of the end as divinely appointed and certain'; yes, one might say, and if so, there could have been no voluntariness in treading the path that leads to it.
And again, the voluntarinessor involuntariness of actions makes a great difference.
It was a voluntary sacrifice, but that voluntariness was not self-will.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "voluntariness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
