Acts
Acts
SPURIOUS or APOCRYPHAL, ancient writings purporting to have been written by or respecting our Savior, his disciples, etc. Of these several are still extant; others are only known by the accounts in ancient authors (Hase, Hist. of Chr. Church, p. 96, 102). SEE CANON (of Scripture).
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Acts
In ethics the main concern is usually said to be with acts or actions, particularly voluntary ones, in their moral relations, or with the moral qualities of acts and actions. By an act or action here is meant a bit of behavior or conduct, the origination or attempted origination of a change by some agent, the execution of some agent’s choice or decision (so that not acting may be an act). As such, an act is often distinguished from its motive, its intention, and its maxim on the one hand, and from its consequences on the other, though it is not always held that its moral qualities are independent of these. Rather, it is frequently held that the rightness of an act, or its moral goodness, or both, depend at least in part on the character or value of its motive, intention, maxim, or consequences, or of the life or system of which it is a part. Another question concerning acts in ethics is whether they must be free (in the sense of being partially or wholly undetermined by previous causes), as well as voluntary, in order to be moral, and, if so, whether any acts are free in this sense. See Agent. — W.K.F.