A Topic of Moral Theology
Braggadocio and Irony
Braggadocio and Irony, as treated in McHugh–Callan (Art. 6. The Remaining Potential Parts of Justice; the Gift of Piety; the Commandments).
In the index as Fiction · Boasting · Feigning of Defects · Irony · Lie · Self-Depreciation · Self-Glorification · Simulation
In the manuals
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Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)
Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. II, Art. 6. The Remaining Pote…, Braggadocio and Irony, n. 2406 — Self-Glorification and Self-Depreciation. Self-Glorification and Self-Depreciation.—Two forms of lying about self are self-glorification and self-depreciation. (a) Braggadocio is untruthful self-glorification, as when one pretends to be of royal descent, or make… Read in context →
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Fifth Part: On the Virtues…, Section E: On Truth, Question Three: On Lying, Article II: On the Species of Lying, nn. ¶1, 864, 865, 866, 867 & 868 (10 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…, Q. II, Doubt VII: On the other things that are reduced to lying, nn. 1–20 (20 passages)
Treated under the broader heading Truthfulness and Reputation (Eighth Commandment) — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Rickaby, Moral Philosophy · The Roman Catechism · Spirago — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)