Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
Joseph Rickaby
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
S.J. · Jesuit · 1845–1932
On this site: Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law; Four-Square; or, The Cardinal Virtues; Socialism
In the Index: Rickaby
His Moral System
Expounds probabilism
- “The safest use of Probabilism is in the field of property transactions and of positive law.” — Rickaby, Section IV. Of Probabilism, n. 5
Life
Born 20 November 1845, Everingham, Yorkshire; died 18 December 1932, North Wales (he had retired to St. Beuno's College). [New Catholic Encyclopedia; The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, p. 145]
- Educated at Stonyhurst; ordained 1877; one of the 'Stonyhurst Philosophers'. [New Catholic Encyclopedia; The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, p. 145; Wikipedia, 'Joseph Rickaby']
- Lecturer in ethics and natural law at Stonyhurst 1879–1896; at Campion Hall, Oxford, 1899–1924. [The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, p. 145; New Catholic Encyclopedia]
- Moral Philosophy (1888); an annotated translation of the Summa contra gentiles (1905). [New Catholic Encyclopedia; Wikipedia, 'Joseph Rickaby']
Sources: New Catholic Encyclopedia (2nd ed., 2003), as published on Encyclopedia.com; The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers (New York, 1917), lives of the contributors (archive.org cu31924063262053); Wikipedia. Each fact names where it was read; the links go to the page or entry itself.
His Moral System, as Our Authors Report It
Every report quoted in the author's own words and linked to its place; point at a name to see his words. Haringer's signs give St. Alphonsus's judgment as Haringer found it in St. Alphonsus's works (his notice, Gury-Ballerini, 1884, p. XI); a sign on a writer the 1884 editor added to the list is the editor's own, and is said to be his.
| Probabilist | |
|---|---|
| “The safest use of Probabilism is in the field of property transactions and of positive law.”In his own words (Expounds probabilism) | Rickaby, Section IV. Of Probabilism, n. 5 |
No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).