Book — Billuart, Summa Summae · from Schola Thomistica
On Human Acts
Contents
On the Voluntary and the Involuntary
- What is the voluntary, and of how many kinds?
- Whether an omission, and the effect that follows from it, are voluntary without a precept to place the act omitted?
- Whether violence causes the involuntary?
- Whether fear causes the involuntary?
- Whether concupiscence causes the involuntary?
- Whether ignorance causes the involuntary?
On Human Acts in Their Moral Being
- In what the morality of human acts in general consists?
- On the principles of morality
- On the concurrence of manifold morality together in the same act
- Whether there are indifferent acts?
- Whether, and how, the human will, to be good, must be conformed to the divine will?
- Whether the exterior act adds goodness or malice to the interior act?
- Whether the event that follows adds to the goodness or malice of the exterior act?
On Conscience
- What is conscience, and of how many kinds?
- Whether, and how, we are bound to conform to an erring conscience?
- Of what species and gravity is the sin of acting against conscience?
- How the confessor should deal with a penitent whom he finds laboring under an erroneous conscience?
- On the scrupulous conscience, through various little questions
- Whether it is lawful to act with a doubtful, probable, or more probable conscience?
On the Probability and Choice of Opinions
- Whether it is licit to follow the less probable and less safe opinion, in concurrence with one more probable and safer?
- Whether, in the conflict of two equally probable opinions on the objective honesty of an act, it is lawful to follow the less safe favoring liberty, leaving the safer favoring the law?
- Whether it is lawful to follow the more probable but less safe opinion, in concurrence with one less probable but safer, where only the objective honesty of the act is at stake?
- Various little questions on the present matter briefly resolved
On Moderate Probabilism
- On the nature of probability
- What systems have arisen concerning probability in practical matters?
- Whether it is lawful to follow an opinion truly and solidly probable favoring liberty, leaving a safer one equally probable, or even more probable, where only the liceity of the action is at stake?
- On the use of probability, and the special rules by which conscience is practically formed in doubts
- Whether it is lawful to follow a probable, or even more probable, opinion, leaving the safer, when there is a certain obligation of attaining a determinate end?
- On Compensative Probabilism