The Goodness of Commanded Acts: Intrinsic and Instrumental
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- What does a command from a wise Lawgiver indicate about the commanded act?
- Which set gives the three senses of goodness and badness discussed in the lesson?
- Why is knowledge an example of goodness as perfection?
- An object suits one person’s goal but conflicts with another’s. Which sense of goodness is involved?
- What becomes especially relevant when goodness concerns praise, reward, blame and punishment?
- Why must rational recognition of goodness be distinguished from legal obligation?
- What are the two categories of the goodness of a commanded act?
- Which is an example of an act good in itself?
- If prayer is intrinsically good, how are its cycles and times determined?
- What example is given for a duty classified as not admitting lapse?
- A particular prayer has been validly performed. Why does its obligation end?
- What distinguishes performance from legal removal of a duty?
- How should the discussion of insanity, menstruation and postnatal bleeding be applied?
- Why is absence of water mentioned in the treatment of an intrinsically good duty?
- What makes the journey to Friday prayer instrumentally good?
- If Friday prayer is not obligatory for someone, what follows about travel required solely for that duty?
- A person obligated to attend Friday prayer is taken elsewhere before the congregation. What is the principle?
- A person observing iʿtikāf is already in the congregational mosque. What happens to the need for a journey?
- Why is ablution treated as instrumentally good in this discussion?
- Why is ablution renewed when ritual impurity occurs before prayer?
- A person remains ritually pure when the prayer becomes due. What follows?
- Which rationale is cited when penal sanctions are discussed as instrumentally good?
- What is meant by the instrumental duty falling away when its basis falls away?
- Which comparison between prayer and ablution is correct?
- Which situation best distinguishes a means from its objective?
- How do recognized impediments for an intrinsic duty differ from the loss of purpose for an instrumental duty?
- Intrinsic goodness means reason can independently specify every detail of an act of worship.
- Validly performing a particular obligatory prayer discharges that prayer obligation.
- If ablution is nullified before prayer, the earlier ablution still satisfies the prayer’s purity requirement.
- For an instrumentally good act, its specific requirement depends on the continuing need for the objective or ground it serves.