index — Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis
Alphabetical Index of Notable Matters
Abbot. His power in his own territory, see Bishop.
Non-Catholics. See Heretic. Infidels. Jews.
I. Essence of the human act. Human act and act of man 47. Human acts: properties 48, elements 52, first subjective element, see Voluntary, its impediments, see Involuntary, second subjective element and its impediments, see Free, objective element: essential 101, accidental, see Circumstance. Distinction of acts: elicited, see Elicited act, commanded, see Command. Analysis of the human act 107.
II. Morality of the human act 113-116. Division of morality: according to the rules of morals 117, into the supreme species of goodness and malice 118. Errors in this matter 116, 119. Foundations of morality: subjective: the very nature of the act 122, right reason 124, eternal law 125; objective: proximate foundation: human nature by means of right reason 127, ultimate foundation: the divine essence 127. False systems concerning the foundations of morality 129-134. Apprehensive faculty of morality 135. Principles of morality, or sources, 138: object of the act 139, 140, circumstances 141, intended end 142.
III. Specific distinction of morality in acts: good and evil 144, indifferent 145; principles of this specification from the act's object 148-150, circumstances 151, intended end 155-157. Relation of the act: to an honorable end 158, to God 159, to a useful or delightful good 158, 161. Morality: change from circumstances 152; multiplication in the same act: from the object 149, from the end 155-30. Whether indifferent acts are given in the individual 160.
1. We give many thanks to our excellent confrere, R. P. Van Langenhove, who with great care kindly wished to prepare the alphabetical tables for the whole Summa Theologiae Moralis.
Equity, see Epikeia.
Love: as a passion 91; as an act of the sensitive appetite and of the will 842. The relation of love to its object 843. Natural, sensible, rational love, ibid. Love of concupiscence and of benevolence, or of desire and of friendship 844. Love: foundations 846, 847, effects 848, 849. Love of God, see Charity. Beatific love is not properly a human act 47-3. Disordered love of self is the cause of every sin 469.
Beatitude. (Treatise on Beatitude. Division of the treatise 14.) Beatitude: as end 9-13, as the end of every human act 15-19, as man's ultimate objective and formal end 19. The beatitude of man is not in created goods 21-26, but in God alone 27. Formal or subjective beatitude: consisting in the vision, love, and fruition of God 31, consisting, in the present order of Providence, in the immediate vision of the divine essence 32, consisting, according to the metaphysical essence, in the vision of God alone 33, not in God's insertion or in the communicated vision of God 35-9. Qualities of beatitude: delight 36, impeccability 38, inamissibility 39. Participation of the body in beatitude 40. Acquisition of beatitude 43-46.
Sacred Bible, see Sacred Scripture.
Blasphemy 781. Its distinction: on the part of mode: enunciative, heretical, dishonoring, imprecatory 782; on the part of the blasphemer: direct and indirect 783. It is against faith 784-a, against religion 784-b, it is a mortal sin from its whole genus 785. Blasphemy against creatures, against saints, 784-b. Custom of blaspheming 786. Rules for judging concerning various formulas of blasphemy 787.
Caritas, see Charity.
III. Charity: subject 863, cause 864-866, increase 867-870, perfection 871, diminution 872, loss 873. Object of charity: formal: the goodness of God in itself 874, of God as He is the object of beatitude or the supernatural end 875, as it contains all perfections 876. Formal object of man's charity: toward himself 878, toward the neighbor 877. Object of charity: material, primary and secondary 880-883, primary, God 884, 885, secondary: we ourselves 886, as regards the soul 887-1, as regards the body 887-2; and the neighbor, though a sinner 889, or an enemy 891-900, see Enemy. Order of charity, see Order.
IV. Charity: act: internal, or dilection 917, mode of dilection 918, merit 919, internal effects 920, 921, external effect: beneficence 924, 925, see Alms. Correction. Gift of the Holy Spirit annexed to charity: wisdom 922. Precept of charity: from natural-divine law 971, from positive-divine law 973: toward God 974, toward the neighbor 975. Necessity of charity by means and by precept 971; obligation of eliciting an act of charity 972.
Circumstance. Its definition and species 102-104. Circumstance: moral (what it is and what it requires) 151, changing the species 152-I, aggravating or diminishing 152-II, passing over into the account of the object 152-I. Circumstance as source of the morality of an act: generic 141, specific 151. Morality of individual circumstances 181-186. Circumstance as regards the gravity of sin 443. Conversion, by reason of circumstance, of mortal sin into venial 548, of venial into mortal 549.
Communication with infidels and heretics 752. Civil and religious communication, active and passive, ibid. Communication of non-Catholics with Catholics: licit, if passive, illicit, if active 753. Communication with non-Catholics: illicit, if active, sometimes licit, if passive 754. Illicit communication: in sacraments 755, in sacramentals 756, in controversies 757, in religious offices 758. Licit or illicit attendance at non-Catholic funerals 759. Civil communication with an excommunicate to be avoided 752.
Complacency, in divine charity 884-1. Complacency concerning an evil object, see Morose delectation.
Concupiscence, as it is the privation of original rectitude in the sensitive appetite 76-1, 515; as it is any movement whatever of the appetite (even of the will) tending toward a delightful good 76-3, its influence upon the voluntary: if it is antecedent 77, 78, if consequent 76, 79; as it is any disordered movement (or passion) of the sensitive appetite 76-1, 448, its morality (sins of sensuality or concupiscence) if it is voluntary: directly and in itself 448-3, indirectly 449, in the cause 450; as it is a special passion of the concupiscible appetite 76-2, 91, see Passion. Threefold concupiscence: of the flesh, of the eyes, pride of life 469. Love of concupiscence: in divine charity 844, 879-2, in divine hope 796.
Conscience.
II. Conscience as it is the rule of human acts 203. Conscience obliging, permitting 203. The force of obliging of a conscience commanding or prohibiting 205, its required qualities: rectitude and certitude 205. What a right conscience is 210. Conscience is true, and either invincibly or vincibly erroneous 206. True conscience as it is the rule of acting 207. Erroneous conscience as it is the rule of acting: if invincibly erroneous 208, on the contrary, if vincibly erroneous 209. Certain conscience 213. Only certain conscience is the rule of acting rightly 214, 215. Conscience as it is the rule of supernatural acts 216-219.
Consent of the will in the genesis of the human act 107. Consent: as condition of sin 416, full or imperfect as regards mortal sin 538, 541, 548. Consent of the legislator for legitimate custom 404-406. Consent of subjects is not required for the validity of civil law 275, nor of ecclesiastical law 334.
Cooperation in another's sins 487. Its various modes 488, malice, if formal 489, if material 489-c, d, excusing cause 490, 491. Cooperation: of merchants 492-A, of servants 492-B-C, with heresy and infidelity 761: as regards sacraments 762, with religious offices 763, with churches to be built 764, with things destined to false worship 765, with works to be sustained 766, with political matters 768.
Damaging: from cooperation in damage, see Cooperation.
Delation, see Denunciation.
Delegated jurisdiction, see Jurisdiction.
God: ultimate end of every creature 12; true and complete beatitude of man 27, 29. Knowledge of God, essence of Beatitude 31-33. God, simply ultimate end of the human act 159. Relation to God: of all acts 159, especially of supernatural acts 195. God permitting sin 479. Aversion from God, malice of mortal sin 530, 531, 533; habitual state of aversion in liability of fault 518. Privation of God, or penalty of loss 524. God: material object: of faith 672, of hope 804, of charity 880-882; formal object: of faith 667, 670, of hope 799-801, of charity 874-876. God, cause: of supernatural habits 568, 615, 618, 638; of faith 726, 705-2, of hope 815, of charity 864.
Devil, see Demon.
Newspapers, see Periodicals.
Dispensation 381. It is either simple, or with compensation 382. Properly it is not given in natural law 259, nor in divine law 322, but in civil law 299, and ecclesiastical law 382. The faculty of dispensing, to whom it belongs 383, 384, to whom dispensation can be granted 385. Legitimate dispensation: conditions 386-388, impediments 389, interpretation and cessation 390.
Diversity of sins, see Specific distinction of sins.
Gift. Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Their essence and definition 630; necessity 631; distinction 632, 636; relation: to virtues 633, to beatitudes 634, to charity 649-B-3; perfection, comparatively to virtues 652; relative perfection of individual gifts 652-at the end; duration 654-4. Their equality as regards extension and intensity 653. Gifts: of understanding 730, of knowledge 731, of wisdom 922, of fear 828.
Doubt. Laying aside of doubt, see Conscience II. Obligation of inquiring into the truth in doubt concerning faith 751.
Church, as it is a temple. Attendance of heretics and infidels at sacred functions in a Catholic church 753.
Elector, electors, see Election.
Epikeia, broadly and strictly so called 296, at the end. Its difference from simple interpretation, from cessation of the end, from dispensation 296, at the end. It is directed by gnome, annexed to prudence 29-3. Epikeia: as it is natural justice 296 at the end; as it pertains to legal justice, or, as it is benign interpretation of law 296, its lawfulness 296, its use 297, its use as regards civil laws 297 at the end, ecclesiastical laws 371.
Epikeia, see Epichia.
Bishop. He can: make laws 324-3, 333, make territorial or personal laws 357, dispense in his own laws 383-A, dispense (restrictively) in the laws of the Church 383, 385, by name forbid books 769-6. He can grant license for reading prohibited books 777, dispense in the law of festive rest and of fasting or abstinence 383. See also Religious superior.
Erroneous conscience, see Conscience II.
Evil example, see Scandal.
I. Human faith, divine faith 659, 660. Divine faith: definition 661, 662, material and formal object 664, 665. Formal object: the sole authority of God revealing 667, 668, other opinions being excluded 669, 670. Object: material, that is, all things revealed by God 671; material: primary 672, secondary 673; material: whether it can be something privately revealed 674, something naturally demonstrated 680; material, implicitly revealed 675; material: of divine faith and of Catholic faith 676. Of the material object: conditions, that is, infallibility 678, inevidence or obscurity 679, 680; historical evolution 682-684, proposition through the magisterium of the Church 685-688.
II. Act of faith: definition 689, 690, opposite erroneous definitions 691, analysis 692, 694, proximate elicitive principle 693, motive 694, procession from the command of the will (affect of credulity) 696. Prerequisites for the act of faith: judgment of credibility, or preambles of faith 699-705. Faith: liberty 698, necessity: of means 707, 708, of precept 709, existence of the precept 789-793. Confession, dissimulation, concealment of faith 711-715.
End. Its general notion 9, division 10. General principles concerning the ultimate end 12. Relation of every human act: to some end 15, 16, to the ultimate end or perfect good 17, to one ultimate end 18. The ultimate end of man: happiness or beatitude, 19, see Beatitude. Specification of the human act from the end 16. End, as it is a source of the morality of the human act: generic 142, specific 155. Morality of an act according as it is referred: to an honorable, useful, or delightful end 158, to the simply ultimate end, that is, God 159, 165. The end of the law does not fall under the law 361, 362. Cessation of law when the end ceases 299, 398-400.
Habit. (Treatise on Habits. Division of the treatise 557.) Habits: essence 559; distinction into good and evil 560, entitative and operative 560; necessity 561, definition 561-3, subject 563-565, 574; causes: nature itself 566, 569, repeated acts 567, infusion 568; increase 570; corruption 571; diminution 572; distinction by reason of cause, nature, object 573, subject 573-4, 574. Moral habits, see Virtue. Supernatural habits, see Infused virtues. Habit, its influence upon the voluntary and free, 96, 97.
Ignorance 80. Its species 81. Its influence upon the voluntary 82, 83. Ignorance of natural law, whether it is given 260. Whether ignorance of human law excuses: from fault 373, from penalty 374. Whether ignorance of the penalty excuses from the penalty 375. Ignorance: as it is a special sin 465, 466; as it is a cause of sin (sins of ignorance) 464-466.
Fulfillment: of civil law 293, of ecclesiastical law: as regards the mode 360, as regards the act 361, as regards the intention 361-2, as regards time 363. Whether law can be fulfilled with sin 362. Whether several precepts can be fulfilled at the same time 365, 366. Whether it is licit to place an impediment to the fulfillment of a precept or law 379.
I. Law: notion 221, definition 222, object, that is, the common good 222-30, author and subject 222-40, difference from precept 223, generic causes 224, promulgation 226-229, see Promulgation. Law: effects: in subjects 231, 233, in the legislator 232; obligation, or directive force 233; distinction, by force of obligation: into preceptive, penal, mixed 234, into affirmative and negative, permitting and invalidating 234. Coercive force of law, or sanction 235-237.
Natural law. Its existence and definition 244, essence 245, 246, foundations 247, difference from eternal law 249. Its obligation or directive force: in itself 250, in its various precepts 251, as regards objects 252, as regards subjects 253. Its coercive force or sanction 254. Its unity 257, immutability 258, 260, 261, indispensability 259.
Human, civil law, completing natural law 262-264, 270, 271. Its necessity 263, 264, definition 265, necessary qualities 272, 279. Its formation through the legislator 267-269, through custom 273; promulgation 274-276; divisions 277, 278, 291. Its object or matter: the common good 279-282; obligation in itself 283, 284, obligation of law: just 285, unjust 286, moral and penal 287, invalidating 288, personal and territorial 291. Its subjects 290-292, fulfillment 293, interpretation 294-297, mutability 298, 299.
IV. Ecclesiastical law, completing divine law 323. Its author 324; matter: in general 325, in particular as regards acts: external 326, internal 327, 328. Formation of laws 329, form 330. Promulgation of laws: general 331, 332, particular 333. Divisions of laws 336: old law, new law, newest law 337, codified law 338. Law: obligation 340; of obligation: origin 334, 335, gravity 341-343; obligation of law: preceptive 344, founded in presumption of law and of fact 345, founded in fiction of law 346, permitting 347, penal 348-351, invalidating 352-354. Subjects of laws: general 355, 356, personal and territorial 357-359. Fulfillment of laws: as regards mode 360-362, as regards time 363, 365, as regards object 364, as regards conflict of laws 366. Interpretation of laws 367: authentic 368, 369, doctrinal 370, private 371. Causes from law: excusing: ignorance 373-375, impotence 376-379; exempting: see Dispensation, Privilege, cessation of the end 398-400, abrogation and derogation 401, 402, custom 404-409.
Book, prohibited books, as dangers of faith and morals 767. Prohibition of reading them: from natural and positive law 769, from ecclesiastical law 769-6, as regards Sacred Scripture 770, as regards matters of faith and morals 771, as regards worship, devotions, liturgy 772. Extension of the prohibition: to books 773, 774, to readers 775; penalties against transgressors 776. Who can prohibit books, grant license to read them 777. Canons of the Church concerning publication and censorship of books 778, 779. Cooperation in the publication and reading of prohibited books 767.
Liberty 85. Liberty: from coercion, or of execution 84-1, from necessity, or of indifference, of election and of exercise 84-2. Liberty of the human will, or its free choice 85; its definition 85; its subject and cause 85-2; its distinction, by reason of the chosen object, into liberty: of contradiction 86-1, of specification 86-2, and of contrariety or moral liberty 86-3; its existence in man 87. In what things man is not free: as regards specification 88-a, as regards exercise 88-b. Liberty of the human act does not constitute its morality 116-a. Liberty of conscience 211-2. Liberty of conscience as it is a false system of morality, see Kantism. Liberty of faith 698.
Malice: supreme species of morality 118, see Human act II. Formal account of malice in sin 427. Malice of the object as it is a condition: of sin 416, of mortal sin 539. Advertence to the malice of the object, as it is a condition: of sin 416, of mortal sin 540. Malice of the will, or sins of malice 471, their relative gravity 472-476.
Civil marriage. Conditions under which it can or must licitly be contracted by Catholics 756-2.
Godmother, see Godfather.
Merit 190, 191. Merit: civil and moral 192-A, natural and supernatural 192-B, of condignity and of congruity 192-C. What falls under merit 193. Conditions of supernatural merit 194, its degrees 196. Relation of the meritorious work to God 195. Evident knowledge of truth at the same time revealed does not diminish the merit of faith 681.
Missionaries. Faculty of missionaries (among heretics or schismatics) to celebrate in their churches 753-d.
Morality, see Human act II.
Mortal sin. Its formal constitutive 530, 531. Its difference from venial sin 530, 531, 533. Its gravity 534, in what sense it is called infinite 536. Its effects 530, 532-3, 537-B-2, liability of fault 518, stain 519, liability of penalty 523, 524, loss of divine charity 873. Its conditions 538-542. Mortal sin: per se and per accidens 543, from its whole genus 544, from its own genus 545. Conversion of mortal sin into venial, of venial into mortal 547-550. Whether it impedes fulfillment of law 362.
Object of the human act 101; as it is the principle of its morality 138-A, 139, of generic morality 140, of specific morality 144, 148, of multiple morality in the same act 149. Object, as specifying the morality of the interior act 162-165, of the exterior act 168-171. Malice of the moral object: as it is a condition of sin 461; as it specifies sins 432-436, multiplies them 438-440, aggravates them 442; as it is a condition of sin: mortal 539, 540, mortal from its whole genus 543, 544, mortal from its own genus 545. Gravity or lightness of the object, or matter, causing the conversion of sins from grave into light, from light into grave 547-550. Object of acts or virtues, primary material, secondary material, and formal 665, 666.
Obligation: of law, see Law. Conscience. Precept.
Forgetfulness, as impediment of the voluntary, see Ignorance. Forgetfulness excusing or not excusing from sin 424.
Works of mercy: corporal, see Alms; spiritual, see Correction.
Oppression of a woman, see Violence.
Order to be observed in charity 901, 902. Order of charity: between God and us 903, 904; between us and the neighbor 906, as regards goods generally 905, as regards goods particularly 907-910; between us and various neighbors: as regards persons 912, 914, 915, as regards goods 913. Order: in fraternal correction 939.
Pope, see Pontiff.
Parish priest. Jurisdiction of the parish priest. It is of the internal forum 324, 222-4. It does not include the power: of making laws 324, of dispensing, generally, in the laws of the Church 324-4-1; nevertheless they can dispense in a particular case over the laws concerning the observance of feast days and abstinence and fasting 383-B-6.
I. Sin: notion 413, 417; distinction from vice and from malice 414, from imperfection 415; general conditions: malice of the object, advertence to malice, consent 416, whether actual advertence is required 424; various names 418. General distinction of sin: into sin of omission 419-421, and sin of commission 422-424; constitutive elements, material and formal 425; essence, including a positive material element 427; definition 428-431. Distinction: between material and formal sin 416-3, between material sin and the material of sin, between formal sin and the formal of sin 426.
II. Sins: specific distinction: from the formal object 432-436, from opposition to virtues and precepts 433, 434, from circumstances 435; numerical distinction from multiplication: of objects 438, of acts 439, 440; distinction by reason of gravity 441: from the object 442, from opposition to virtues and precepts 442-2-3, from circumstances 443; distinction by reason of subject 446, 447: sins of concupiscence or sensuality 447-451, consent in delight or morose delectation 452-455, consent in the act, or desire and joy 456-460. Carnal and spiritual sins 436, their gravity taken comparatively 444; sins against God, against oneself, and against the neighbor 436-b; sins of heart, mouth, and work 436-B-b; sins crying to heaven 445-2; not all sins are connected 445-1.
III. Sins: causes 461; interior causes: ignorance, or sins of ignorance 464-466; passion, or sins of infirmity 467-469; will, or sins of malice 471-473, in particular: sins against the Holy Spirit 474-477; exterior causes: God permitting 478-480, temptation of the demon 481-486, cooperation of man 487-492, sin itself 493-497, Capital sins.
V. Distinction of sins into mortal and venial, see Mortal sin. Venial sin.
Periodicals, see Book.
Pessimism, as a moral system Appendix IX-2.
Penalty 522. Its distinctions 522. Distinction of the evil of fault from the evil of penalty 528. Every penalty is on account of fault 529. Liability of penalty, effect of sin 521; effect of mortal sin: liability of eternal penalty 523, that is, penalty of loss and penalty of sense 524; effect of venial sin: liability of temporal penalty 525; sin, penalty of sin 528-3. Once fault has been remitted, not every penalty is always remitted 526. Penalty, sanction of human law 235. Ecclesiastical penalties, latae and ferendae sententiae 348. Conventional penalty 350. Whether it excuses from penalty: ignorance of law 374, ignorance of the penalty alone 375. Interpretation of penalties 351, 339-6-5. Vindictive penalty and medicinal penalty 522.
Apostolic prefect, see Apostolic vicar.
Religious prelate, see Religious superior. Prelate nullius, see Bishop.
Pragmatism Appendix VI-D.
Quasi-domicile, see Domicile.
Liability: of fault, see Fault; of penalty, see Penalty.
All religious. Their subjection with regard to books to be published by them 778-B. Canonical penalties against apostate religious 750-2. - Exempt clerical religious. They are subject to the local Ordinary with regard to certain causes expressed in law 357-4-c-i-5. See also Religious superior.
Rigorism. Historical note concerning it Appendix-IV-3.
Sisters, with regard to charity and justice, see Brothers.
The notion of hope 794-796. Definition of theological hope 797. Acts of hope: principal formal object: omnipotence assisting 799, secondary formal object 802; contrary opinions in this matter 800, 801; material object: primary: God to be possessed 804, 805, secondary 806. - Necessity of hope: of means 808, of precept 809; precept: from natural-divine law 838, 839, from positive divine law 840.
Hope, as a virtue: is a morally good and honorable habit 810-812, is a theological virtue 813, is a supernatural virtue 815. Unformed hope 814. Its subject: proximate 816, remote 817. Its infusion and loss 818. Its certitude 819. Gift of the Holy Spirit annexed to hope, i.e. fear of God 820-828. - Errors against the necessity and perfection of Hope, or Quietism 809, 811, 812.
Religious superior. Superiors to whom there belongs, by common law: power of jurisdiction 222-4; legislative or dominative power 324-4; power of dispensing in the laws of the Church 383-B; faculty of granting or denying to subjects permission to read prohibited books 777-and note; faculty of granting permission for publishing books 778-B.
The safer course must be taken in practical doubts and in doubts concerning the validity of an act or the necessity of means 215.
Venial sin. Its distinction from mortal sin, and its formal constitutive element 530, 531. Its inordination with respect to the ultimate end 531, 533-4. Its effects: stain 520, disposition to mortal sins 533, liability of fault 520, liability of penalty 525. - Venial per se and per accidens 543, venial from its own genus 546. Conversion of mortal sin into venial, of venial into mortal 547-550. - Its existence 551-555.
Vicar Apostolic, see Bishop.
Vicar Capitular, see Bishop.
Violent, see Violence.
Man, see Husband.
Virtue. Its definition 576, 577 [the original prints 757]; it is a principle perfective of a power 578, for what reason virtues are distinguished: in the natural order: into virtues in a qualified sense, and virtues simply and properly so called 579-A, in the supernatural order: into unformed virtues, and virtues formed by charity 579-B; the material and formal element of virtues 580. - The subject of virtues, i.e. the powers of the soul 582, virtues which are: in the intellect 583, in the will 584, in the sensitive appetite 585. - Distinction of virtues 587: intellectual virtues 588-590; moral virtues: their: definition 591, necessity 592, specification 593-596; cardinal virtues 597-599. The mean of virtues 600-603. - Of virtues: connection 604-606, comparative perfection 607-611, duration 612, 613. - Supernatural virtues, see Infused virtues. - Acts of virtues as they are objects: of natural law 252, of the old law 307, of Christian law 319-321, of human law 279-282, of ecclesiastical law 325-328.
Force, see Violence.
Voluntary 53. Its distinction from the natural, the violent, the willed, the permissive 53. Its distinctions: by reason of the end, into perfect and spontaneous, necessary and free 54; by reason of intention, into actual, virtual, habitual 55; by reason of principle, into elicited and commanded 56; by reason of manifestation, into express, tacit, presumed 57, merely interpretative 58. - Positive and negative voluntary 59-1, direct and indirect 59-2; conditions of the negative voluntary in itself and in its effect 60, 61; voluntary in itself or in the cause 62; conditions of the voluntary in the cause 63, 64, voluntary in the cause relative to morality: of an external effect 172, of a double effect: good and evil 173. - Impediments, or enemies, of the voluntary 67. - Free voluntary, see Free.
Pleasure, see Delight.