A Topic of Moral Theology
Co-operation in Injustice
Sharing in another's unjust damage: the nine ways of co-operating, and when co-operators are bound to restitution.
The works themselves ask 49 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Within this topic
- Co-operation by counsel and command
- Co-operation by consent, flattery, participation and receiving
- Negative co-operation (silence, not preventing)
See also Co-operation in Another's Sin — in Charity
Also asked about as…
accomplice · fence · helping someone steal · receiving stolen goods (ed.)
In the index as Counselor (Consulens) · Modes of unjust cooperation: one commanding · Voters (Suffragatores) · Co-operation · One mandating (Mandans) · Restitution · Cooperation in injustice · Flatterer (Palpo) · One not manifesting (Manifestans non) · Participant (Participans) · Cooperator · Formal and material cooperator · Mute person (Mutus) · Counselors · Negative Cooperators toward damage (Cooperatores negativi ad damnum) · Receiver · Those furnishing recourse (Recursum praebentes) · Consent · Cooperation · Counsel · Damage (Damnum) · Doubt about a vow · Guards (Custodes) · Leader of an army
In the manuals
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Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. II, Part Second. On the Precep…, Book Sixth. On the Seventh…, Chapter Third. On the Repa…, Question Fourth. On Restit…, Article First. On Unjust Cooperation in General, nn. 477, 478 & 479 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries
Vol. I, Bk. VI, Pt. VII, Div. III, Chapter IV. Co-operation in Injustice, nn. ¶1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)
Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. II, On the Seventh and Tenth P…, XXVII. On Restitution from Unjust Cooperation, nn. 1395–1419 (25 passages)
Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.
Vol. I, Treatise on Justice and Ri…, Third Part. On Restitution, Sect. I, Ch. I, Article III. On Unjust Cooperation, nn. ¶1 & ¶2 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, Treatise on Justice and Ri…, Third Part. On Restitution, Sect. I, Ch. I, Art. III, § VII. On the Mute, the One Not Resisting, the One Not Manifesting, or on Negative Cooperators, nn. ¶1, 690, 691, 692 & 693 (21 passages — hover a number to read it)
Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology
Vol. III, Contracts, and the Obligat…, On the Virtue of Justice (…, Part I — Chapter III: On Restitution, n. 515 — § III. On Cooperators in Damage.. 515. Not only those who principally inflict damage are bound to restitution, but also unjust cooperators, namely all those who truly have influence with him in causing the damage. St. Thomas, 2. 2., q. 62, a. 7; Soto, li… Read in context →
Theologia Moralis: Principles — Responses — Counsels
Vol. II, Bk. II, Tractate V: On Justice, Chapter III: On Unjust Cooperation, n. ¶1 — Reason of the Order. - Since already before, n. 129 ss., we treated cooperation in general, and at n. 132 we showed how commutative justice can be injured by material cooperation itself when not excused, it is lawful for… Read in context →
Vol. II, Bk. II, Tractate V: On Justice, Ch. III, § 1. Various Unjust Cooperations, nn. 661, 662, 663, 664, 665, 666, 667, 668 & 669 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)
Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Tr. XI, Sect. I, Q. III, Ch. III, Article II. On Cooperative Damaging, n. 100 — 100. The things which have been said thus far regard the damaging action in itself and the agent himself, insofar as he acted either alone or principally. But it often happens that several persons cooperate for procuring… Read in context →
Vol. II, Tr. XI, Sect. I, Q. III, Ch. III, Art. II, § 1, 5. On The One Providing Recourse, n. 107 — 107. The one providing recourse, or receiving, is he who provides refuge to an evildoer or thief as such, either a) so that he may escape safely from those pursuing, or b) so that he may be able to deposit stolen goods. … Read in context →
Institutiones Morales Alphonsianae
Vol. I, Pt. II, Sect. II, Tr. VII, Diss. III, OR ON RESTITUTION, Ch. II, ARTICLE III: On the Unjust Cooperator, n. ¶976 — 976. NOTIONS. 1. Cooperator is taken here in a broader sense for every one who, besides the executor, has influenced the damage inflicted on one's neighbor, whether he did this by moving the executor to inflict damage, w… Read in context →
Vol. I, Pt. II, Sect. II, Tr. VII, Diss. III, OR ON RESTITUTION, Ch. II, Art. III, § 1. ON THOSE WHO COOPERATE POSITIVELY, nn. ¶977, ¶1, ¶978, ¶2, ¶979, ¶980, ¶981, ¶982, ¶3, ¶983, ¶984, ¶4, ¶985, ¶5, ¶986 & ¶987 (16 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, Pt. II, Sect. II, Tr. VII, Diss. III, OR ON RESTITUTION, Ch. II, Art. III, § 2. ON THOSE WHO COOPERATE NEGATIVELY, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶988 & ¶989 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Theologia Moralis Sancti Alphonsi: Reduced into a Compendium
Vol. I, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND JUST…, THIRD PART: ON RESTITUTION, Ch. II, ARTICLE III: ON UNJUST COOPERATION, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3 & ¶4 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND JUST…, THIRD PART: ON RESTITUTION, Ch. II, Art. III, § I. On One Commanding, nn. ¶759, ¶760 & ¶761 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND JUST…, THIRD PART: ON RESTITUTION, Ch. II, Art. III, § II. On One Counseling, nn. ¶1, ¶762, ¶763, ¶764, ¶765 & ¶766 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND JUST…, THIRD PART: ON RESTITUTION, Ch. II, Art. III, § III. On One Consenting, nn. ¶767, ¶768 & ¶769 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND JUST…, THIRD PART: ON RESTITUTION, Ch. II, Art. III, § IV. On the Flatterer, n. ¶770 — 770. - A flatterer is called one who by praising, flattering, whispering, censuring, or exaggerating injury moves another to causing damage. Concerning the flatterer these things must be held: 1° He who has induced anoth… Read in context →
Vol. I, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND JUST…, THIRD PART: ON RESTITUTION, Ch. II, Art. III, § V. On Recourse, or on One Receiving, or Furnishing Recourse, n. ¶771 — 771. - 1° One receiving, namely one who knowingly and freely furnishes security and convenience to a malefactor as malefactor, so that he may either inflict evil more confidently, or not repair it after it has been infli… Read in context →
Vol. I, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND JUST…, THIRD PART: ON RESTITUTION, Ch. II, Art. III, § VI. On One Participating, nn. ¶1 & ¶772 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND JUST…, THIRD PART: ON RESTITUTION, Ch. II, Art. III, § VII. On the Silent, the One Not Preventing, the One Not Manifesting, or on Negative Cooperators, nn. ¶1, ¶773, ¶774, ¶775 & ¶776 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Third Part: Concerning Com…, Section A: Concerning the …, Question Two: Concerning t…, Article IV: On Unjust Cooperation, nn. ¶1, 309 & 319 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)
Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium
Diss. II, Chapter II — On those who either hinder others from obtaining some good, or cooperate in the loss of others, nn. I–XL (40 passages)
Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues
Tr. I, Disputation XXIV: On Resti…, Q. III, Doubt II: On the indirect causes of loss, nn. 1–17 (17 passages)
The Casuist: A Collection of Cases in Moral and Pastoral Theology
Vol. V, Case XVII: Restitution on Account of Cooperation in Injustice, nn. ¶1–¶23 (23 passages)
Treated under the broader heading Restitution — Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Koch–Preuss · Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Billuart, Summa Summae · Slater, Cases I · 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.)