A Topic of Moral Theology
Life Insurance
The contract of life insurance and the moral difficulties raised about it.
The works themselves ask 6 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Insurance · Life insurance · Insurance company · Life · Aleatory · Conditions · Contract · Contracts · Defect · Fraud · Interest · Price · Restitution · Seller · Society · Vice · Workers
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 Fourth. On Contracts, Question Fourth. On Aleato…, Article Fourth. On Insurance, On Life Insurance, nn. 630, 631, 631* & 631** (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Third Part: Concerning Com…, Sect. C, Ch. V, Question One: On Insurance, nn. 594, 595, 596, 597, 598 & 599 (72 passages — hover a number to read it)
Compendium of Moral Theology
Vol. I, Tr. IX, Pt. II, Sect. II, Chapter V. On Aleatory Contracts, n. 553 — Insurance is a contract by which one of the contracting parties takes upon himself the danger of some thing, and the other obliges himself to a certain determinate price for this kind of danger taken up. Thus, for exampl… Read in context →
Cases of Conscience for English-Speaking Countries, Volume I
Slater, Cases I, Contracts, Case 18. Life Insurance, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7, ¶8, ¶9 & ¶10 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Insurance — 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) · Tanquerey · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)