A Topic of Moral Theology

Abnormalities which Arise from Morbid Disturbance of the Psychic Faculties

Pathological states of the psychic faculties that diminish or remove liberty, and what they leave imputable.

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mental illness and responsibility · mental illness and sin · psychiatric illness and guilt (ed.)

In the index as Insanity · Hysteria · Liberty of human acts · Abnormal Mental States · Expert witness, the physician as · Aboulia · Diseases of the soul · Epilepsy · Fixed ideas · Moral liberty · Pathological states · Wills · Aboulia diminishes liberty · Abulia · Bodily complexion · Character, or man's disposition · Dementia · Diseases of the mind · Disordered egoism · Education · Epileptic disease · Habit · Hypnosis · Hypnotic state

In the manuals

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. I, Bk. I, Tr. II, Diss. I, Pt. II, Sect. II, Ch. II, Art. VI, Section II. Abnormalities which Arise from Morbid Disturbance of the Psychic Faculties, n. 52 — Here it is necessary to distinguish: 1. amentia properly so called, by which the operation of the intellect is wholly disturbed with respect to certain matters; 2. a habitual psycho-somatic abnormal disposition, which ne… Read in context →

Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology

Vol. II, Fundamental Moral Theology…, On Human Acts — Chapter I: On Free Acts, nn. 127, 128, 129, 130, 131 & 132 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)

Theologia Moralis: Principles — Responses — Counsels

Vol. I, Tr. II, Chapter II: Impediments of Free Choice in the Sick Man, n. ¶1 — Order of treatment. For our end and according to the plan of the present work, it will suffice that, after a general notion has been set down, we touch very briefly upon the individual diseases and their force upon free … Read in context →

Vol. I, Tr. II, Ch. II, Article I: On Various Diseases of the Mind: Brief Notions, nn. 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101 & 102 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Vol. I, Pt. I, Tr. II, Ch. II, Art. II, § 3, 4. On Certain Pathological Bodily States, nn. 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97 & 98 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

Moral Principles and Medical Practice: The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence

Coppens, Medical Practice, Lecture VII. The Nature of Insanity, nn. ¶1–¶58 (58 passages)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Vol. I, General Moral Theology, Treatise: On Human Acts in…, First Part: On Human Acts …, Section A: On the Conditio…, Ch. I, Q. IV, Article III: On the More Remote Impediments of Freedom, nn. ¶1, 98, 99 & 100 (35 passages — hover a number to read it)

Pastoral Questions

Ch. II, Question V: Concerning Abnormal Persons, nn. ¶2368–¶2418 (51 passages)

Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. I, On Human Acts, II. On the Impediments of the Human Act, n. 48 — Does ignorance cause the involuntary? - Ignorance with which someone acts either has itself causally in relation to that which is done, or has itself merely concomitantly with respect to that which is done. It has itself… Read in context →

Treated under the broader heading Obstacles to Voluntariety — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Rickaby, Moral Philosophy · The Casuist · Coppens, Moral Philosophy — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)