A Topic of Moral Theology
Duties toward Animals
Whether brute beasts have rights, and what duties of charity or humanity bind their masters — the classical answer in Rickaby (Part III, ch. V, §2).
In the index as Goods · Dominion · Animals · Life · Autocentric and heterocentric · Commandments (laws) of God · Cruelty to animals · Dumb animals · Killing one's self · Person · Reputation · Servitude · Thing
In the manuals
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Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, First Part: On Justice in …, Ch. II, Question Three: On the Object of Right and Dominion, nn. 166, 167, 168, 169 & 170 (35 passages — hover a number to read it)
Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues
Tr. II, Disputation II: On the Acq…, Question III: On the acquisition of dominion over irrational creatures, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)
Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law
Pt. III, Ch. V, Section II. Of the so-called Rights of Animals, nn. 1, 2, 3 & 4 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
The Catechism Explained: An Exhaustive Exposition of the Christian Religion
Pt. II, Vice and Virtue, Perfection, A. THE COMMANDMENTS, X. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF…, THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT OF GOD, 3. OUR CONDUCT IN REGARD TO THE LOWER ANIMALS, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7 & ¶8 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Rights — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Slater, Cases I · Coppens, Moral Philosophy — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)