Acts of Man or Human act sound relative, by lexicon the two phrases are very close but going deeper into their matters and functions, one finds them different from each other.
An act that is not proper to man as a rational being is called Act of Man
Example eating, hearing, tasting, smelling, etc.
Human Acts are actions or activities that emanate from the rationality of man
Example:
To vote a candidate
To decide
To teach
To love
To hate, to read, to study, etc.
The phrase "an act of man" seems to exclude the acts of women, who are also members of the human race. So "human act" is more inclusive.
Suicide is a human act. FYI, an act of man is an act that can be shared with other animals. This includes acts such as sleeping and eating. A human act, on the other hand, is an act that is proper ONLY to man. Such acts include cursing and the like. So suicide is an act that only man can think of and, therefore, making it a human act since animals would never attempt to suicide because every animal's instinct is to survive.
What a human does as opposed to what God does.
Both Man and Human Have the Same Meaning. Man is Another word for Human 'man kind'- 'human kind'
ACT, HUMAN (Latin actus humanus)-a human action, an act of decision, whose source is in rational knowledge and free will. The human act is not limited to the cognitive action of the intellect, nor is it manifested chiefly in theoretical knowledge, but it takes in practical cognition (acts of decision) and "poetic" cognition, namely creative and artistic cognition. Human action originates in man as a rational and free being. The human act differs from an "act of man", in which something happens independently of man's will
Acts of man are acts that can be shared with other animals. This includes acts such as sleeping and eating. Human acts, on the other hand, are acts that are proper only to man. Such acts include cursing, suicide, killing, and the like.
The spirit that is within man makes him human, as opposed to the spirit of animals which make them animals. Man has the ability to reason while animals act mostly by instinct.
this is very simple.act of human means that either the will or knowledge is absent while human act is the complete presence of the will and the knowledge.
In a situation where a man is given the option to torture another man to save 1000 lives. A utilitarian would choose to torture the man. This is because utilitarianism is the ethical system which is based on the calculus of happiness. The happiness of 1000 lives being saved outweighs the pain of torturing one man. Thus to the utilitarian the right thing to do is to torture the man.
What a human does as opposed to what God does.
according to our Religion class, human acts are free acts that proceed from a deliberate will while the acts of man are involuntary acts that do not involve the use of intellect and will.
Sabotage Act