A Topic of Moral Theology

Education and Liberty

The object and necessity of education, and how far upbringing shapes or limits a man's freedom.

In the index as Education · Habit · Invincible ignorance or error · Liberty of human acts

In the manuals

Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology

Vol. II, Fundamental Moral Theology…, On Human Acts — Chapter I: On Free Acts, nn. 119, 120, 121 & 122 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Public School Education

CHAPTER II. Education—Its Object and Necessity, nn. ¶1–¶30 (30 passages)

CHAPTER XII. The Denominational System Alone Satisfies the Wants of All, and Can Save the Republic, nn. ¶1–¶78 (78 passages)

Treated under the broader heading Obstacles to Voluntariety — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Coppens, Medical Practice · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis · 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.)