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§ IV. On Those who Cooperate in Injustice

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The modes of cooperating in injustice are enumerated as nine, expressed in these little verses:

Command, counsel, consent, the flatterer, the receiver,

The participant, the silent one, the one not opposing, the one not manifesting.

Of these the first six are called positive, the last three negative (St. Thomas, II-II, q. 62, a. 1).

We shall speak first about those cooperating positively, then about those cooperating negatively, and finally about the measure and order by which cooperators are held to restitution.

Those who Cooperate in Injustice

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