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The purpose or end of an action is the reason which induces theagent to act. -Suicide(1852-1861). Example: Caius opinesthat he is not obliged to confess a calumny, because he is not certainthat it is unconfessed; he fears that he is obliged, because St. ed with freedom from suffering and mortality, became burdensome tothe soul and subject to pain and death.

A moral system should be onethat can be easily understood and applied, otherwise it is unworkableand useless. ), but spiritual beatitude, which is a foretaste and figure of theeternal joy to come. (a) Thus, those who have notthe use of reason, such as infants and the insane, are subject to theNatural Law on account of their human nature which is injured by anytransgression of its inclinations. ndhence chooses sin readily and gladly, as happens when a sin against theHoly Ghost has been committed.