index — Bucceroni, Commentaries on Human Acts

Alphabetical Index of Subjects

¶1.

Action: Action, act I. 3. - What it is to act, ibid. 33. - To act on account of an end, ibid. 2. 40. Preliminary notions 1. - To act on account of delight XII. 11. - On account of hope of remuneration and of punishments IX. 25.

¶2.

Elicited act: Twofold division III. 4. 10. - Love ibid. 5. - Hatred ibid. 6. - Desire, flight ibid. 4. 9. - Delight, sadness ibid. 4. 9. - Hope, despair ibid. 9. - Daring, fear ibid. 9. - Anger ibid. 9. - Will, intention, counsel, consent, choice, command, use, fruition ibid. 10 ff.

¶3.

Human act: What it is, Preliminary notions 1. - Various respects, ibid. 2; I. 1. - Act of man and human act I. 2. - Voluntary, free, moral ibid. 3. 4. - Necessary knowledge ibid. 4. - Act in the state of madness and sleep ibid. 4. - Various necessary acts ibid. 6. 7. 18. 19. - Whether sensible knowledge suffices for a human act ibid. 8. - Voluntariness ibid. 4. 9. - Internal, external; natural, supernatural; elicited, commanded III. 2. 3 ff. - Indifferent X. 2. - Whether it must be directed to the glory of God ibid. 3. - Multiple goodness XIII. 4. 5.

¶4.

Love: What it is III. 4. 5. 8. 16; VI. 3. 17. 21. - On account of the end I. 40. Of the end, of the means ibid. 41. - Of concupiscence, of benevolence ibid. 5. 7. 8.

¶5.

Appetite: What it is I. 23. - Natural, elicited ibid. 11. 12. - Object ibid. 23.

¶6.

Daring: What it is III. 9.

¶7.

Beatitude: Whether a human act I. 6. - Whether voluntary ibid. 18.

¶8.

Good: What it is; End and those things which are for the end I. 23. - Moral good and evil X. 1. 4. - Right and sinful X. 5. - Laudable and culpable ibid. 6. - Honorable ibid. 7 ff. - Useful ibid. 8. 9. - Delightful ibid. - How it is intended XI. 6.

¶9.

Cause: Per se, per accidens V. 15.

¶10.

Circumstance: What it is XIII. 1. - It contributes moral goodness and malice ibid. 2 ff. - On the part of the object, on the part of the act ibid. 5. - Whether it changes the nature of the exterior work and of the interior act ibid. 6. - Aggravating, diminishing ibid. 7. - Infinitely aggravating ibid. - Notably, lightly aggravating ibid. 8. Changing the species ibid. 9 ff. - Whether an act is good if the circumstance is evil ibid. 16. - How many circumstances of human acts are numbered ibid. 17. - How individual circumstances are to be considered ibid. 18.

¶11.

Concupiscence: Impediment of a human act VI. 1. - What it is ibid. 2 ff. - Antecedent, consequent ibid. 9. - Antecedent diminishes the voluntary ibid. 10. 11. - It renders the act more intense and easier ibid. 12. - Consequent is a sign of the more voluntary from which it proceeds ibid. 13. 14. - It increases the voluntary which proceeds from it ibid. 14. - Whether concupiscence diminishes merit and demerit ibid. 15. 16. - Whether it diminishes sin ibid. 17. 18. 19. - Whether passion totally excuses from sin ibid. 20. 21. - Whether the first motions of concupiscence are always sins ibid. 22. 25. - To resist, to consent, to bear oneself passively ibid. 22. 26.

¶12.

Consent: Act of the will III. 41. 46. - Distinction from choice ibid. 42. 43. - Whether it pertains only to the higher part of the soul ibid. 44.

¶13.

Counsel: Act of the intellect, comprising inquiry and judgment concerning means III. 33. - Inquiry and discovery of means necessary ibid. 34. 35. Discretive judgment ibid. 36. - It is concerned with those things which are done by us ibid. 37. - And those things which come into doubt ibid. 38. - It does not always precede choice ibid. 39. - In children and the mad ibid. 40.

¶14.

Custom: Whether it increases the voluntary VI. 27.

¶15.

Fault: Its proper notion X. 6.

¶16.

Delight: What it is III. 4. 9; VI. 3. 22. Sensible, spiritual ibid. 27; VI. 5. 6. - Delightful good X. 8. 9. - To act on account of delight XII. 11.

¶17.

Desire: What it is III. 4. 8. 9. 16. 17. - Efficacious, inefficacious ibid.

¶18.

Despair: What it is III. 9.

¶19.

Choice: Genesis, nature, object III. 28. 30. - Distinction from intention ibid. - Act of the will ibid. 29. - It is concerned with human acts ibid. 31. - It is always free ibid. 32.

¶20.

Error: What it is V. 8. 9.

¶21.

End: What it is III. 14. - To act on account of an end I. 40. - What and how manyfold XII. 1. 2. - It gives goodness and malice to a human act ibid. 3. - It gives moral species to an act ibid. 4 ff. - Whether the intention of an extrinsic end can change the nature of the exterior work ibid. 9. - Whether an act is good if it has a twofold end, one good, another evil ibid. 10. - To act on account of delight ibid. 11.

¶22.

Fruition: Nature III. 21. - Object ibid. 22. - Whether only of the ultimate end ibid. 23. - Love of friendship and of concupiscence ibid. 24. - Perfect, imperfect ibid. 25. - Proper, improper ibid. 26.

¶23.

Joy: What it is III. 4. 8. 9.

¶24.

Grace: Whether it diminishes the voluntary VI. 28.

¶25.

Habit: Whether actions from habit are imputable V. 30. - Whether it increases the voluntary VI. 27.

¶26.

Honorable: What it is X. 7 ff.

¶27.

Ignorance: Impediment of a human act V. 1. - Antecedent, concomitant, consequent ibid. 2. - Whether it causes the involuntary ibid. 3 ff. - Whether it renders an act null ibid. 7. - Whether it is sin ibid. 8 ff. - Invincible, vincible ibid. 10. - Affected, crass, supine, purely vincible, per accidens ibid. 11. - Forgetfulness, inconsideration, inadvertence ibid. 12. - Of law, of fact ibid. 16. - Whether it excuses wholly from sin ibid. 18. 19. - Whether it diminishes sin ibid. 20 ff. - Species of sins from ignorance ibid. 26. 27. - Whether vincible ignorance of law is per se a special sin ibid. 28. - How great is the malice of sins from ignorance ibid. 29. - Whether actions done from habit are imputable ibid. 30.

¶28.

Command: Nature III. 50. - In which acts of the intellect it is found ibid. 51. - In which acts of the will it is contained ibid. 52. - Whether use is command ibid. 53. - Various elements of command ibid. 54. - Whether command and the commanded act are one act ibid. 55.

¶29.

Impetration: Its force XIV. 4.

¶30.

Intention: What it is III. 13. 17. - Act of the will ibid. - Concerning the end ibid. 14. 15. - Whether there is one or a twofold act of volition as regards the end and those things which are for the end III. 18. - Whether someone can intend several things ibid. 19. - Which intention is prevailing ibid. - On account of the end I. 40.

¶31.

Involuntary: What it is I. 21. - Contrarily, privatively, negatively ibid. - Non-voluntary ibid. - Simply, in a certain respect ibid. 22.

¶32.

Anger: What it is III. 9.

¶33.

Praise: Its proper notion X. 6.

¶34.

Free: In human acts II. 1. - What it is ibid. 2. - Immunity from intrinsic necessity ibid. 3. - Active indifference ibid. 4. - St. Thomas ibid. 5. 9. - Predetermination to one ibid. 5. 6. 10. - Premotion ibid. 6. 7. 10. - Foundation of liberty ibid. 11. - First-first motions, second-first motions, deliberate acts ibid. 12. - Practical judgment ibid. 13. - The will is moved of necessity by no object as regards the exercise of the act ibid. 14.

¶35.

Lust: Smallness of matter IV.

¶36.

Marriage: With intention of dissolubility III. 20. - With an unknown diriment impediment I. 25. - Whether, entered under grave fear and with that fear compelling to copulation, it is convalidated VII. 20.

¶37.

Evil: Moral X. 1. 4. - Sin ibid. 5. - Fault ibid. 6. - How it is intended XI. 5.

¶38.

Merit: What it is XIV. 1 ff. - Natural, supernatural ibid. 5. - De condigno, de congruo ibid. 6 ff. - Infallible merit de congruo ibid. 13. - Relation of merit to reward ibid. 14. - Relation of merit de congruo to merit de condigno ibid. 15. - Increase and diminution of merit ibid. 16. - Conditions generally required for merit on the part of the meritorious work ibid. 17 ff. On the part of the one meriting ibid. 24. On the part of God rewarding ibid. 25. Conditions required for merit de condigno on the part of the meritorious work itself ibid. 26. 27. On the part of the person meriting ibid. 28. 29. On the part of God rewarding ibid. 30 ff. Divine ordination and promise ibid. Reward is rendered from some justice, and not only from fidelity ibid. 33 ff. This justice participates at once in commutative and distributive justice ibid. 34 ff. Conditions required for merit de congruo ibid. 40. Object of merit ibid. 41 ff.

¶39.

Fear: What it is VII. 1 ff. - Light, grave ibid. 5 ff. - Intrinsic, extrinsic ibid. 7. 8. - Just, unjust ibid. 8. - Reverential ibid. 9. - To act with fear, from fear ibid. 10. - Voluntary, involuntary from fear ibid. 11. - To act from fear, from force ibid. 12. - To act from fear from concupiscence ibid. 13. - Contract from fear valid, rescindable ibid. 14. - Fear influencing the will of a thing simply good ibid. 15. - Whether importunate prayers constitute grave fear ibid. 16. - Whether grave fear excuses from fault 17. 18. - Whether a virgin is bound to permit herself rather to be killed than violated ibid. 19. - Whether a marriage contracted through grave fear, that same fear then compelling to copulation, is convalidated ibid. 20.

¶40.

Mass: Applied again III. 20.

¶41.

Morality: Considered generally IX. 1. 2. - As regards the name ibid. 3. 4. - Acts morally good or evil, honorable or base ibid. 6. 7. - Moral good, honorable, useful, delightful ibid. 8. - As regards the thing ibid. 9. - Fundamental notion of morality ibid. 9 ff. - Formal notion ibid. n. 14 ff. - The fundamental norm of morality embraces all human acts ibid. 22. The formal rule of morality likewise embraces all human acts ibid. 23. - Comparison of both rules ibid. 24. - It is honorable to act on account of hope of remuneration and fear of punishments ibid. 25. - Positive law cannot govern every human act ibid. 26. - Naturally honorable, naturally base ibid. 26. - Whether morality is found only in the interior act of the will, or also in the exterior act ibid. 27 ff. - Whether the exterior act adds morality in some way to the internal act ibid. 30. 31. - Whether the effect adds morality ibid. 32. - Whether the same act can be good and evil ibid. 33. - Whether moral good and evil are found in the passions ibid. 34. - Object XI. - End XII. - Circumstances XIII.

¶42.

Motion: What it is I. 33. - To move oneself ibid. 33. 34. 35. - Mover on the part of the subject and of the object ibid. 36. 37. - First-first motions, second-first motions, deliberate acts II. 12.

¶43.

Natural: What it is I. 9. 11.

¶44.

Object: Source of the morality of human acts XI. 1. - What it is ibid. 2. - It gives the first and essential species to the human act ibid. 3. 4. - How good and evil object is intended ibid. 5. 6. - Good object and evil end ibid. 7. - Evil object and good end ibid. 8.

¶45.

Hatred: What it is III. 4. 6. 9. - Of abomination, of enmity ibid. 6. 7. 8.

¶46.

Passions: Concupiscible, irascible VI. 3 ff. - Whether passion diminishes sin ibid. 17. 18. 19. - Whether passion totally excuses from sin ibid. 20. 21.

¶47.

Sin: Its proper notion X. 5. - Fault ibid. 6. - Without an act I. 44.

¶48.

Powers: Of twofold order I. 36.

¶49.

Permitted: What it is I. 20.

¶50.

Punishment: What it is III. 9.

¶51.

Purpose: What it is III. 12.

¶52.

Reason: Higher, lower III. 44.

¶53.

Satisfaction: Its force XIV. 4.

¶54.

Sixth Precept of the Decalogue: Voluntary in the cause IV. 33 ff. - Influencing causes ibid.

¶55.

Hope: What it is III. 9. 16. 17.

¶56.

Spontaneous: What it is I. 12.

¶57.

St. Thomas: Doctrine concerning the motion of the will I. 30 ff. - Concerning liberty II. 5 ff.

¶58.

Fear: What it is III. 4. 9.

¶59.

Sadness: What it is III. 4. 8. 9.

¶60.

Use: Act of the will III. 45. 46. - It is properly concerning means ibid. 47. - It follows choice ibid. 48. - Whether it is distinguished from choice ibid. 49.

¶61.

Useful: What it is X. 8. 9.

¶62.

Vengeance: What it is III. 9.

¶63.

Violence: What it is VIII. 1 ff. - Total, partial; absolute, in a certain respect ibid. 3. 4. 5. - Rape ibid. 5. - Force inflicted on the will as regards elicited and commanded acts ibid. 6 ff. - Voluntary, involuntary ibid. 11. 12.

¶64.

Force: Cf. Violence.

¶65.

Willed: What it is I. 10.

¶66.

Voluntary: What it is I. 9. 20. - How manyfold ibid. 12. - Requisites ibid. 13. - St. Thomas ibid. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Prerequisite knowledge ibid. 4. 5. 15. - According to imperfect and perfect notion ibid. 13. 14. 15. Voluntary act and act of the will ibid. 16. - A voluntary act is founded in the natural ibid. 17. - Free and necessary ibid. 12. 16. 17. 18. - Without an act ibid. 43. 44. 45. 46. - Perfect, imperfect IV. 2. 3 ff. - Simply, in a certain respect ibid. 4. 5. - Complete, incomplete IV. 7. - Direct, indirect I. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48; IV. 9. - Omission, effect of omission ibid. 9. 10. 11. - In itself, in the cause ibid. 12. 13. 14. - Positive, negative ibid. 13. - What is required so that an evil effect voluntary in the cause be imputed to fault ibid. 15. 16. 17. 18. - When someone is bound not to place a cause by reason of an evil effect ibid. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. - When he is not bound ibid. 25. 26. 27. 28. - Whether a gravely evil effect is always imputable to grave fault ibid. 29 ff. Voluntary in another causally and at the same time involuntary in itself objectively ibid. 32. - Voluntary in the cause concerning the Sixth Precept of the Decalogue ibid. 33. - As regards confession ibid. 37. - When an effect willed in the cause is imputed ibid. 38. - Actual, virtual, habitual, interpretative ibid. 39 ff. - Interpretative permission ibid. 44. - Man operating on account of an end actually, habitually, virtually, interpretatively ibid. 45. Express, tacit, presumed, interpretative will ibid. 46. 47.

¶67.

Will: It is concerned only with good I. 23. - Apprehended, determinate, possible ibid. 4. 8. 24. - Concerning a thing impossible by law ibid. 25. - Whether it is moved by the intellect ibid. 26. - Whether it is moved by the sensitive appetite ibid. 27. - St. Thomas ibid. 28. - Whether it is moved of necessity by the lower appetite ibid. 29. - Whether it moves itself to act ibid. 30. - Whether it moves itself in the volition of means ibid. 31. - Whether it is moved by some exterior principle in the volition of the end ibid. 32. - What it is for the will to move itself ibid. 33. - How the will moves itself and is moved ibid. 34. - St. Thomas ibid. 35. - Whether it needs a twofold mover on the part of the subject and object ibid. 36. 37. 38. 39. - It freely wills the means and the end ibid. 31. 40. - It does not explicitly order all things to some extrinsic end, nor explicitly will all things under the notion of means or end ibid. 40. - Of end and of means ibid. 41. - Whether God moves the will ibid. 42. - Twofold relation to the willed III. 10. - Twofold order of acts of the will III. 4. 9. 10. - Simple volition, concerning the end, concerning the means III. 11. 12. 16. - Velleity IV. 6. 7.

¶68.

Vow: Against the purpose of not vowing III. 20.