Section — Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V · from Schola Thomistica
Section I: On Piety
VIRTUES which are joined by some kindred bond often lend one another their names; hence Piety is often taken for mercy, or that compassion by which we are moved toward others, and conversely; hence also that affection by which certain Brute animals nourish their young with such solicitude passes into a semblance of piety, as some call it. It will not be beside the point, therefore, to inquire what Piety truly is, in how many ways it is taken, and what kind of virtue it is.
VIRTUTES, quae cognato aliquo faedere iunguntur, sibi sua nomina non raro accomodant; unde Pietas pro misericordia, seu illa compassione, qua erga aliquos movemur, saepe sumitur, et e contra; hinc etiam affectus ille, quo, quaedam Bruta suos faetus tanta alunt sollicitudine, in speciem pietatis transit, ut a nonnullis vocatur; non abs re igitur erit, quid vere sit Pietas, quot modis sumitur, et qualis sit virtus, inquirere.
Within this section
- Question I: What piety is, and what kind of virtue
- Question II: What reverence is to be shown to parents
- Question III: What obedience is to be shown to parents by children
- Question IV: How, and when, children are bound to relieve their parents
- Question V: On the obligation of parents toward their children
- Question VI: In which cases parents can disinherit their children
- Question VII: Whether children can ever refuse sustenance to their parents, and disinherit them
- Question VIII: To what a woman is bound who has a son by adultery, or has passed off a child as her husband's
- Question IX: On the mutual obligation of servants and masters
- Question X: On the obligation of brothers toward brothers and sisters, and conversely