Manual — Arthur Vermeersch, S.J.
Questions on Justice for Present-Day Use, Scholastically Disputed
First published 1904. Vermeersch's Quaestiones de iustitia ad usum hodiernum scholastice disputatae, second edition, enlarged and more accurate (Bruges: Charles Beyaert, 1904) -- the second volume of his Quaestiones morales ad usum hodiernum, with the letter of Leo XIII and the Imprimatur. The English translation is our own, made from the Latin page by page against the printed pages: his marginal numbers 1-570 (with 82 bis, 171 bis, 350 bis and 462 bis) are the anchors of citation, his notes stand at the foot of the passage that calls them, his Summary of Contents stands at the front and his Bibliography, Onomastic Index and Alphabetical Index of Subjects at the end, every reference a link. The eighteen corrections of the printed Errata are made in the text, and the Errata page is translated too. The foldout chart of taxes is reproduced from the printed plate, its inscriptions translated beneath it. In the Appendix the French version of the Motu Proprio, which repeats the Italian word for word, is not translated a second time; the place is marked. Download: PDF · EPUB The original this transcription was made from: Google Books — the Latin, second edition (Bruges, 1904).
The Louvain Jesuit's fourteen disputed questions on justice for his own day: the virtue of justice and its parts, legal and distributive justice and Christian democracy, the right of suffrage and just taxation, injustice and restitution, socialism and private property, possession and prescription, contracts, the just price, usury, the hiring of labor and the just wage, strikes, equity, gratitude, the place of women in the State, and the State as a moral person -- with the Motu Proprio of Pius X on Christian popular action.
The book’s own contents, as printed: Summary of Contents (as printed) · Onomastic Index (as printed) · Alphabetical Index of Subjects (as printed)
Contents
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- Title Pages
- Letter of Pope Leo XIII
- Imprimatur
- Preface
- Summary of Contents (as printed)
Question II: Legal and Distributive Justicenn. 41–82
- Outline of the Questionnn. 41–42
- Parergon: Concerning Christian Democracynn. 77–82
Question III: The Right of Suffrage and Taxesnn. 83–131
- Outline of the Questionnn. 83–84
Chapter II: The Justice to be Observed in Exacting Taxesnn. 97–120
- Article I. Preliminary Notionsnn. 97–102
- Article II. Entrance into the Controversynn. 103–104
- Article III. Formulation and Arguments of the Conclusionnn. 105–112
- Article IV. Supplements to the Doctrinenn. 113–118
- Concerning the Graphic Description of Taxesnn. 119–120
Question IV: The Vice of Injustice and Restitutionnn. 132–172
- Synopsis of the Questionn. 132
Chapter I: The Vice of Injusticenn. 133–139
- Parergon: The Taking of Another’s Property When the Owner is Unreasonably Unwillingnn. 150–154
Chapter III: Restitutionnn. 155–172
- Article I. Introduction to the Disputationnn. 155–156
- Article III. Supplements to the Doctrinenn. 163–172
Question V: On Socialism and the Private Possession of Goodsnn. 173–253
Chapter I: On Socialismnn. 173–193
Chapter II: Concerning the Right of Private Propertynn. 194–245
Section I. Concerning the Object and Causes of Private Propertynn. 195–221
Article I. On the Object and Source of the Regimenn. 195–210
- § 1. Notions and Opinionsnn. 195–197
- § 2. Formulation and Arguments of the Conclusionnn. 198–201
- § 3. Supplements to the Doctrinenn. 202–210
Article II. The Proximate Cause of Property, or the Primordial Factnn. 211–221
- § 1. Notions and Opinionsnn. 211–213
- § 2. Formulation and Arguments of the Propositionnn. 214–216
- § 3. Supplements to the Doctrinenn. 217–221
Section III. On the Limits of the Right of Propertynn. 231–245
- Article I. Notions and Conclusionnn. 231–235
- Article II. Supplements to the Doctrinenn. 236–245
- A Remaining Minor Question: On the Ownership of a Published Book and a Disclosed Inventionnn. 246–253
Question VI: The Privileges of the Possessornn. 254–286
- Outline of the Questionn. 254
Chapter I: The More Favorable Position of the Possessornn. 255–266
Article I. Notions and Conclusionnn. 255–260
- § 1. Notionsnn. 255–257
- § 2. Conclusionnn. 258–260
- Article II. Supplements to the Doctrinenn. 261–266
Chapter II: Prescriptionnn. 267–286
Question VII: Contracts in Generalnn. 287–337
- General Notions and Outline of the Questionnn. 287–291
- Chapter I: The Shameful Cause of Contractsnn. 292–298
Chapter II: The Consent of the Contracting Partiesnn. 299–323
Article I. The Necessary Qualities of Consentnn. 299–307
- § 1. Notions and Conclusionnn. 299–301
- § 2. Supplements to the Doctrinenn. 302–307
Article II. Defects of Consentnn. 308–315
- Article III. The Notification of Consent and the First Beginning of the Obligationnn. 316–323
Chapter III: Laws that Render Juridical Acts Invalidnn. 324–337
- Article I. Preliminary Notionsnn. 324–325
- Article II. Conclusion and Supplements to the Doctrinenn. 326–330
- Article III. Supplements to the Doctrinenn. 331–337
Question IX: The Loan for Consumption and Usurynn. 357–385
Article I. Initial Presentation of the Controversynn. 357–372
- § 1. Historical Notionsnn. 358–362
- § 2. Doctrinal Notionsnn. 363–367
- § 3. Several Explanations of Catholics Are Refutednn. 368–372
- Article II. Formulation and Arguments of the Conclusionnn. 373–377
- Article III. Supplements to the Doctrinenn. 378–385
Question X: On the Letting and Hiring of Labornn. 386–477
- Overview of the Questionnn. 386–387
Chapter I: On the Form of the Stipulation of Labornn. 388–402
- Article I. Preliminary Notionsnn. 388–392
- Article II. Formulation and Arguments of the Conclusionnn. 393–396
- Article III. Supplements to the Doctrinenn. 397–402
Chapter II: On the Just Wagenn. 403–454
Article II. On the Lower Limit of a Just Wagenn. 417–454
- § 1. On the Acts of the Holy Seenn. 419–421
- § 2. First Approach to the Disputationnn. 422–436
- § 3. Formulation and Arguments of the Conclusionnn. 437–440
- § 4. Supplements to the Doctrinenn. 441–454
- Remaining Minor Question: On Work Stoppagesnn. 470–477
Question XI: On Equitynn. 478–492
Question XII: On Gratitude, or a Grateful Mindnn. 493–511
- Article I. Notionsnn. 493–495
- Article II. Formulation and Arguments of the Conclusionnn. 496–499
- Article III. Supplements to the Doctrinenn. 500–506
- Parergon: The Remaining Virtues Connected with Justicenn. 507–511
Question XIV: On the Moral Person that is the Statenn. 529–563
- Overview of the Questionnn. 529–530
Chapter II: On the State or Commonwealthnn. 552–563
- Article I. On the Origin or Nature of the Staten. 553
- Article II. On the End of Civil Society and the Common Goodnn. 554–556
- Article III. On the Means to the End and Public Powernn. 557–559
- Article IV. On the Members or Associates of the Commonwealthn. 560
- Article V. On the Worst and the Best Commonwealthnn. 561–563
- Appendix: Motu Proprio of Our Most Holy Lord Pope Pius X — On Christian Popular Actionnn. 564–570
- Bibliography
- Onomastic Index (as printed)
- Alphabetical Index of Subjects (as printed)
- Errata