A Topic of Moral Theology

Insensibility

The vice of defect against temperance: the man who refuses the pleasure he ought to take, and the hardness that passes for virtue.

The works themselves ask 2 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.

Also asked about as…

excessive austerity · feeling too little (ed.)

In the manuals

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Ludovicus Wouters, C.SS.R. — 2 passages

Vol. I, Bk. I, Tr. III, Diss. I, Pt. II, Sect. II, Ch. II, Art. III, § II, Point III. On Patience, n. 428 — III. Opposed Vices. By defect there is opposed impatience, by which someone indulges sorrow more than is fair, and which is accustomed to lead to complaints, anger, etc.; by excess, insensibility, by which someone is mov… Read in context →

Vol. I, Bk. I, Tr. III, Diss. I, Pt. II, Sect. II, Ch. II, Art. IV, § I. On Temperance in General, n. 434 — III. Opposed Vices. By excess there is opposed insensibility, by which someone refuses to place pleasurable acts where reason prescribes it (St. Thomas, II-II, q. 142, a. 1); by defect there is opposed intemperance, by w… Read in context →

John A. McHugh, O.P., and Charles J. Callan, O.P. — 2 passages

Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. II, Art. 7. The Virtue of Fort…, The Opposite Vices, n. 2446 — Sins Opposed to Fortitude. Sins Opposed to Fortitude.—(a) Number.—The vices opposed to fortitude are four, two of excess and two of defect, according as fear and confidence are not regulated as to time, place, manner and other circumstances in the… Read in context →

Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. II, Art. 8. The Virtue of Temp…, The Opposite Vices, n. 2464 — The Vices Opposed to Temperance. The Vices Opposed to Temperance.—(a) The vice of deficiency has been called insensibility, and consists in an unreasonable dislike of the inferior sensible pleasures, which makes one unwilling to use them when and as rea… Read in context →

Gennaro Bucceroni, S.J. — 2 passages

Vol. I, On Sins and Virtues, VI. On Virtues, nn. 348 & 349 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Benedict Henry Merkelbach, O.P. — 7 passages

Gaudentius Bontempi of Brescia, O.F.M. Cap. — 5 passages

Treated under the broader heading Temperance — Tanquerey · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · 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.)