Sunday, September 13, 2009

HuMaN IgNoRaNcE

Ignorance is lack of knowledge about
a thing in
a being capable of knowing.

Fundamentally speaking and
with regard to a
given object ignorance is

the outcome of the limitations
of our intellect or of
the obscurity the matter itself.

So far as fixing human responsibility,
the most important
division of ignorance

is that designated by the terms
invincible and vincible.


Ignorance is said to be invincible when a person
is unable to rid himself

of it notwithstanding the employment
of moral diligence, that is,

such as under the circumstances is,
morally speaking, possible and obligatory.


This manifestly includes the states of
inadvertence, forgetfulness, etc.

Such ignorance is obviously involuntary
and therefore not imputable.

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