Treatise — Joseph Rickaby, S.J.
Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law
First published 1918. The fourth edition (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1918), of the Stonyhurst Philosophical Series, from the Project Gutenberg transcription (ebook no. 8103). Rickaby's own paragraph numbers are the anchors; where the print itself skips a number (Temperance has no 2, the Worship of God no 5 — verified against the 1918 scan) the gap is kept as printed, and unnumbered stretches (the prefaces, the Addenda, the Appendix, the Index) carry our editorial marks ¶ 1, ¶ 2… for citation. The transcriber's "[Greek: …]" transliterations stand as transcribed — the print's Greek type was not reproduced. The printed Index is kept; its page references, which the transcription omitted, were restored from the 1918 scan itself (each number read against the page images) and resolved to the paragraphs they cite, so the index joins the site-wide alphabetical index. Download: PDF · EPUB The original this transcription was made from: Project Gutenberg #8103.
The Stonyhurst manual of moral philosophy, in English from Rickaby's own pen: the ground the moral theology manuals build on, argued from reason — happiness and the last end, human acts, the passions, habits and the virtues; duty, the Eternal and Natural Law, conscience and Probabilism, sanction, and the case against utilitarianism; then natural law applied — duties to God, the preservation of life, truth-telling, charity, rights and contracts and usury, marriage, property, and the State with war and civil liberty. Each section closes with his readings from St. Thomas, Aristotle, Plato, Cicero and Suarez, the Summa citations linked into this library.
The book’s own contents, as printed: Contents (as printed)
Contents
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- Title Pages
- Contents (as printed)
- Preface (1905)
- Preface to the Fourth Edition (1918)
- Addenda et Corrigenda (1918)
Part III. Natural Law
- Chapter IV. Of Charity
Chapter VIII. Of the State
- Section I. Of the Monstrosities called Leviathan and Social Contract
- Section II. Of the theory that Civil Power is an aggregate formed by subscription of the powers of individuals
- Section III. Of the true state of Nature, which is the state of civil society; and consequently of the Divine origin of Power
- Section IV. Of the Variety of Polities
- Section V. Of the Divine Right of Kings and the Inalienable Sovereignty of the People
- Section VI. Of the Elementary and Original Polity
- Section VII. Of Resistance to Civil Power
- Section VIII. Of the Right of the sword
- Section IX. Of War
- Section X. Of the Scope and Aim of Civil Government
- Section XI. Of Law and Liberty
- Section XII. Of Liberty of Opinion
- Appendix
- Note on Rousseau
- Index