Aquinas Ethicus: The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas, Vol. 1

Thomas St. Aquinas, Joseph

• Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9783849648305
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

St. Thomas is not only the king of theologians, but the prince of moralists, and it has seemed a pity that his own words on matters of daily practice should have been so long inaccessible to the English reader. Technical Latin is not attractive to those who are unversed in it, and the student of ethics might be easily bewildered by the large admixture of speculative theology in the Summa. In this translation the separation of ethics from theology has been carried out in the main, and the English has been made as simple as the subject-matter permits. This is volume one out of two and a a translation of the principal portions of the second part of the Summa Theologica including more than three hundred endnotes.

Table of contents

• PREFACE
• QUESTION I.: OF THE LAST END OF MAN IN GENERAL.
• QUESTION II.: OF THE OBJECT IN WHICH MAN’S HAPPINESS CONSISTS.
• QUESTION III.: WHAT IS HAPPINESS?
• QUESTION IV.: OF THINGS REQUISITE FOR HAPPINESS.
• QUESTION V.: OF THE ATTAINMENT OF HAPPINESS.
• QUESTION VI.: OF THE VOLUNTARY AND THE INVOLUNTARY.
• QUESTION VII.: OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HUMAN ACTS.
• QUESTION VIII.: OF THE WILL AND ITS OBJECTS.
• QUESTION XII.: OF INTENTION.
• QUESTION XIII.: OF ELECTION, OR CHOICE OF MEANS.
• QUESTION XVIII.: OF THE GOOD OR EVIL OF HUMAN ACTS IN GENERAL.
• QUESTION XIX.: OF THE GOOD AND EVIL OF THE INTERIOR ACT OF THE WILL.
• QUESTION XX.: OF THE GOOD AND EVIL OF EXTERIOR HUMAN ACTS.
• QUESTION XXI.: OF THE PROPERTIES CONSEQUENT UPON HUMAN ACTS CONSIDERED AS GOOD OR EVIL.
• QUESTION XXII.: OF THE SUBJECT OF THE PASSIONS.
• QUESTION XXIII.: OF THE DIFFERENCE OF PASSIONS ONE FROM ANOTHER.
• QUESTION XXIV.: OF GOOD AND EVIL IN PASSIONS.
• QUESTION XXVI.: OF LOVE.
• QUESTION XXVII.: OF THE CAUSE OF LOVE.
• QUESTION XXVIII.: OF THE EFFECTS OF LOVE.
• QUESTION XXIX.: OF HATRED.
• QUESTION XXX.: OF DESIRE.
• QUESTION XXXI.: OF DELIGHT, OR PLEASURE.
• QUESTION XXXII.: OF THE CAUSE OF PLEASURE.
• QUESTION XXXIII.: OF THE EFFECTS OF PLEASURE.
• QUESTION XXXIV.: OF GOOD AND EVIL IN PLEASURES.
• QUESTION XXXV.: OF PAIN AND SORROW IN THEMSELVES.
• QUESTION XXXVI.: OF THE CAUSES OF PAIN.
• QUESTION XXXVIII.: OF REMEDIES FOR SORROW OR PAIN.
• QUESTION XXXIX.: OF THE GOOD AND EVIL OF SORROW OR PAIN.
• QUESTION XL.: OF HOPE.
• QUESTION XLI.: OF FEAR IN ITSELF.
• QUESTION XLII.: OF THE OBJECT OF FEAR.
• QUESTION XLIV.: OF THE EFFECTS OF FEAR.
• QUESTION XLV.: OF FIERY DARING. Endnote 077
• QUESTION XLVI.: OF ANGER AS IT IS IN ITSELF.
• QUESTION XLVII.: OF THE EFFICIENT CAUSE OF ANGER.
• QUESTION XLVIII.: OF THE EFFECTS OF ANGER.
• QUESTION XLIX.: OF HABITS IN GENERAL.
• QUESTION L.: OF THE SUBJECT OF HABITS.
• QUESTION LI.: OF THE GENERATING CAUSE OF HABITS. Endnote 084
• QUESTION LII.: OF THE INCREASE OF HABITS.
• QUESTION LIII.: OF THE DESTRUCTION AND DIMINUTION OF HABITS.
• QUESTION LV.: OF VIRTUES IN THEIR ESSENCE.
• QUESTION LVI.: OF THE SUBJECT OF VIRTUE.
• QUESTION LVII.: OF THE VARIOUS INTELLECTUAL VIRTUES.
• QUESTION LVIII.: OF THE DISTINCTION OF MORAL VIRTUES FROM INTELLECTUAL. Endnote 093
• QUESTION LIX.: OF MORAL VIRTUES IN THEIR RELATION TO THE PASSIONS.
• QUESTION LXI.: OF THE CARDINAL VIRTUES. Endnote 100
• QUESTION LXII.: OF THE THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES.
• QUESTION LXIII.: OF THE CAUSE OF VIRTUES.
• QUESTION LXIV.: OF THE MEAN OF VIRTUES. Endnote 106
• QUESTION LXV.: OF THE CONNEXION OF VIRTUE WITH VIRTUE.
• QUESTION LXXI.: OF VICES AND SINS IN THEMSELVES.
• QUESTION LXXII.: OF THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN SIN AND SIN.
• QUESTION LXXIII.: OF THE COMPARISON OF SIN WITH SIN.
• QUESTION LXXIV.: OF THE SUBJECT OF SINS.
• QUESTION LXXV.: OF THE CAUSES OF SIN IN GENERAL.
• QUESTION LXXVI.: OF THE CAUSES OF SIN IN PARTICULAR.
• QUESTION LXXVII.: OF THE CAUSE OF SIN ON THE PART OF THE SENSITIVE APPETITE.
• QUESTION LXXVIII.: OF MALICE AS A CAUSE OF SIN.
• QUESTION LXXXIV.: OF ONE SIN BEING THE CAUSE OF ANOTHER SIN. Endnote 152
• QUESTION LXXXVI.: OF THE STAIN OF SIN.
• QUESTION LXXXVII.: OF LIABILITY TO PUNISHMENT.
• QUESTION LXXXVIII.: OF VENIAL AND MORTAL SIN.
• QUESTION XC.: OF LAWS. Endnote 165
• QUESTION XCI.: OF THE VARIETY OF LAWS.
• QUESTION XCII.: OF THE EFFECTS OF LAW.
• QUESTION XCIII.: OF THE ETERNAL LAW.
• QUESTION XCIV.: OF THE NATURAL LAW.
• QUESTION XCV.: OF HUMAN LAW.
• QUESTION XCVI.: OF THE AUTHORITY OF HUMAN LAW.
• QUESTION XCVII.: OF CHANGE OF LAWS.
• QUESTION C.: OF THE MORAL PRECEPTS OF THE OLD LAW.
• Second Division, or Secunda Secundæ.
• QUESTION I.: OF FAITH. Endnote 208
• QUESTION II.: OF THE ACT OF FAITH.
• QUESTION III.: OF THE EXTERIOR ACT OF FAITH.
• QUESTION IV.: OF THE VIRTUE OF FAITH.
• QUESTION V.: OF PERSONS HAVING FAITH.
• QUESTION VI.: OF THE CAUSE OF FAITH.
• QUESTION X.: OF UNBELIEF IN GENERAL.
• QUESTION XI.: OF HERESY.
• QUESTION XII.: OF APOSTASY.
• QUESTION XIII.: OF THE SIN OF BLASPHEMY.
• QUESTION XVII.: OF HOPE.
• QUESTION XVIII.: OF THE SUBJECT OF HOPE.
• QUESTION XIX.: OF THE GIFT OF FEAR.
• QUESTION XX.: OF DESPAIR.
• QUESTION XXI.: OF PRESUMPTION.
• QUESTION XXIII.: OF CHARITY IN ITSELF.
• QUESTION XXIV.: OF THE SUBJECT OF CHARITY.
• QUESTION XXV.: OF THE OBJECT OF CHARITY.
• QUESTION XXVI.: OF THE ORDER TO BE OBSERVED IN CHARITY.
• QUESTION XXVII.: OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT OF CHARITY, WHICH IS LOVE.
• QUESTION XXVIII.: OF JOY.
• QUESTION XXIX.: OF PEACE.
• QUESTION XXXI.: OF DOING GOOD TO OTHERS.
• QUESTION XXXII.: OF ALMSGIVING.
• QUESTION XXXIII.: OF FRATERNAL CORRECTION.
• QUESTION XXXIV.: OF HATRED.
• QUESTION XXXV.: OF SLOTH.
• QUESTION XXXVI.: OF ENVY.
• QUESTION XXXVII.: OF DISCORD.
• QUESTION XL.: OF WAR.
• QUESTION XLI.: OF ASSAULT AND BATTERY.
• QUESTION XLII.: OF SEDITION.
• QUESTION XLIII.: OF SCANDAL.
• QUESTION XLIV.: OF THE PRECEPTS OF CHARITY. [St. Matt. xxii. 36—40.]
• QUESTION XLVI.: OF STUPIDITY.
• Endnotes: