A Topic of Moral Theology
The object of an act
What the object is; objects with a morality of their own (blasphemy, murder) and their effect on the will
The works themselves ask 8 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Object · Human Act · Act · Object of the human act · End · Morality · Evil · Object and morality of act · Satisfaction · War
In the manuals
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A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries
Vol. I, Bk. I, Ch. IV, Sect. II, Point I. The Object, nn. 1 & 2 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. I, On Human Acts, III. On the Morality of Human Acts, nn. 71 & 72 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, On Human Acts, IV. On the Various Sources of Morality, nn. 83, 84, 85 & 86 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, On the Fifth Precept of th…, VII. On War, n. 755 — What is lawful to do against the enemy in war? - In a just war it is lawful to do all things against the enemy which are necessary and apt for obtaining the just end of war, yet according to the command and express or ta… Read in context →
Commentaries on Human Acts (Commentarii de Actibus Humanis)
Bucceroni, Commentaries on Human Acts, Commentary XI: On the Object of Human Acts, nn. 5 & 7 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.
Vol. I, Treatise on Human Acts, Ch. III, Art. II, § I. On the Object, n. 26 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. I, General Moral Theology, Treatise: On Human Acts in…, First Part: On Human Acts …, Section A: On the Conditio…, Ch. II, Question I: On the Essential Element or Object, nn. ¶1 & 101 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. I, General Moral Theology, Treatise: On Human Acts in…, Second Part: On Human Acts…, Section A: On the Morality…, Q. V, Article I: On the Object, nn. ¶1, 147, 148, 149 & 150 (17 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading The Object — Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Koch–Preuss · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Billuart, Summa Summae · Rickaby, Moral Philosophy — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)