What are actions?
"You committed a disgusting act!"" This act is worthy of respect and rewards! "- you can often hear such expressions .What are actions, what do they mean? What exactly are we used to call actions, and what are they different from, for example, actions?
Further we will consider these questions in more detail.
What is an act: the difference from action
Under the action is meant the manifestation of energy, the actactivities. The simplest examples of actions: jump, say a word, turn around. These are single actions. Also, the actions can be lengthy, that is, requiring more time for committing, for example: reading, washing, preparing food. Actions can be realized when a person understands what he is doing and unconscious, for example: mechanically draw patterns on paper during a telephone conversation, shiver from cold, blush in certain situations.
Acts are always conscious and completedactions, the realization of the free will of man. Making an act, a person understands exactly what he is doing, perhaps thinking about the consequences of his actions. What an act is, often determines a person's moral choice, his moral beliefs, the concepts of good and evil in his perception. Examples of good deeds: help a friend write a diploma, transfer a grandmother across the road, cure a sick animal. Examples of bad deeds: deliberately hit another person, deliberately lie in something important.
Of course, here is also important such a factor assubjectivity. So, for example, one person will perceive a perfect act as something good, and from another he will get a negative evaluation.
The act can be expressed in the following forms:
- expressing one's opinion in words;
- the commission of an act or omission;
- the expression of his position with his eyes, gestures, tonality of speech.
Watch your actions, because they are judged on you by other people.
There is also the concept of "sin", which characterizes the bad deeds of a person in a religious context. Read more about this in the article What is sin.
