A Topic of Moral Theology
Affability (Friendliness)
Affability, and the vices of flattery and quarrelsomeness.
The works themselves ask 15 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Within this topic
Also asked about as…
being rude · flattery (ed.)
In the index as Affability · Flattery · Justice · Adulation · Debt · Gratitude · Liberality · Modesty · Vindication · Affectation · Bluntness · Co-operation · Contention · Contentiousness · Courtesy · Eutrapelia · Friendship · Modesty of manners · Moroseness · Observance · Penance · Piety · Religion · Roughness
In the manuals
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A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries
Vol. I, Bk. VI, Pt. VII, Div. III, Chapter IV. Co-operation in Injustice, n. 4 — Whoever by provocation or ridicule, or by praise or flattery, causes another to commit an injury, or is the cause why reparation is not made for injustice committed, is himself bound to make restitution in the same way a… Read in context →
Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. I, Bk. I, Tr. III, Diss. I, Pt. II, Sect. II, Ch. II, Art. II, § III. On the Potential Parts of Justice, n. 384 — The potential parts of justice are several. For justice is a virtue toward another, rendering to him what is owed according to equality. Therefore every virtue which by its nature is toward another, but falls short of ju… Read in context →
Vol. I, Bk. I, Tr. III, Diss. I, Pt. II, Sect. II, Ch. II, Art. II, § III, Point IX. On Affability, nn. 413, 414 & 415 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, Bk. I, Tr. III, Diss. I, Pt. II, Sect. II, Ch. II, Art. IV, § IV, Point III, III. On Modesty of Conduct, n. 462 — III. Opposed Vices. By excess there is opposed affectation, by which someone attends too much to the external movements of the body, beyond the measure of right reason; by defect, rusticity, by which someone does not att… Read in context →
Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)
Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. II, Art. 5. The Quasi-integral…, The Potential Parts of Justice, n. 2143 — Degrees of Moral Debt. Degrees of Moral Debt.—The remaining potential parts of justice are those in which there is not a legal debt, which is enforced by some law, but a moral debt to which one is obliged from the decency or the greater decenc… Read in context →
Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. II, Art. 6. The Remaining Pote…, Affability, nn. 2421, 2422 & 2423 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. II, Art. 8. The Virtue of Temp…, Decorum, n. 2566 — Modest Behavior or Decorum. Modest Behavior or Decorum.—(a) The Virtue.—The movements and gestures of the body should be regulated by reason, both because they are indications of one’s own character and disposition, and because they express one’s d… Read in context →
Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Tr. XI, Sect. II, Q. III, Namely, Gratitude, Vindication, Affability, Liberality, and Epikeia, Article III. On Affability, nn. 612, 613 & 614 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Fifth Part: On the Virtues…, Section F: On Other Habits…, Question Four: On Affability, nn. ¶1, 888 & 889 (11 passages — hover a number to read it)
Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues
Tr. IV, Disputation XIII: On the O…, Sect. V, Friendship, Liberality, Epikeia, and the Opposed V…, Question III: On friendship, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)
Institutiones Morales Alphonsianae
Vol. II, Pt. IV, Tr. III, Ch. II, Art. I, § 2. Concerning The Plaintiff And Denouncer, nn. ¶2303, ¶2304, ¶1, ¶2, ¶2305, ¶2306, ¶2307 & ¶2308 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)
Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. III, On the Particular Obligati…, I. On Judges, n. 8 — How must right process be instituted? - In a civil case the process must be instituted at the petition of the plaintiff. Plaintiff is so called from action. Action is the right of pursuing in judgment what is owed to one… Read in context →
Vol. III, On the Particular Obligati…, VI. On Accusers, nn. 59, 60, 61, 62 & 63 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Theologia Moralis Sancti Alphonsi: Reduced into a Compendium
Vol. I, TREATISE ON PARTICULAR STA…, PART FIRST: ON THE STATE O…, CHAPTER V: ON THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE ACCUSER AND THE ACCUSED, nn. ¶1, ¶1071, ¶1072 & ¶1073 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.
Vol. II, Treatise on Particular Sta…, Part First. On the State o…, Chapter V. On the Obligations of the Accuser and of the Accused, nn. 24, 25 & 26 (18 passages — hover a number to read it)
Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium
Diss. V, Chapter IX — On the obligations of those who serve the courts, n. I — SECTION II — On the accuser and the denouncer. I. QUESTION I. Is anyone bound to accuse or to denounce? ANSWER. This distinction between an accuser and a denouncer St. Thomas constitutes, II-II, q. 68, art. 1: that a denouncer intends a brother's amendment, an accuse… Read in context →
Treated under the broader heading Justice as a Virtue and Its Parts — Koch–Preuss · Rickaby, Moral Philosophy · Rickaby, Four-Square — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)