A Topic of Moral Theology

Solicitude

The care and watchfulness prudence requires in carrying out what it has judged.

The works themselves ask 1 question under this heading — see them together with their answers.

In the index as Prudence · Fraud · Solicitude · Astuteness · Caution · Circumspection · Craftiness · Cunning · Eubulia · Gnome · Inconsideration · Inconstancy · Infidelity · Mean · Negligence · Precipitation · Providence · Rancor · Reason · Shrewdness (solertia) · Synesis

In the manuals

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Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)

John A. McHugh, O.P., and Charles J. Callan, O.P. — 5 passages

Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. II, Art. 1. The Virtue of Prud…, Solicitude, nn. 1681, 1682, 1683, 1684 & 1685 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)

Gennaro Bucceroni, S.J.

Vol. I, On Sins and Virtues, VI. On Virtues, n. 346 — What is prudence, what are its parts, and what vices are opposed to it? R. To the first. It is a certain special virtue of the practical intellect, by which in any business occurring we know what is honorable, what shame… Read in context →

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Benedict Henry Merkelbach, O.P. — 12 passages

Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, First Part: On Prudence It…, Question Three: On Sins Op…, Article II: On False Prudence, nn. ¶1, 41, 42, 43, 44 & 45 (12 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues

Gaudentius Bontempi of Brescia, O.F.M. Cap. — 7 passages

Tr. I, Disputation XXII: On the V…, Question IX: On solicitude for temporal things, nn. 1, 2, 3 & 4 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Tr. I, Disputation XXII: On the V…, Question X: On solicitude for the future, nn. 1, 2 & 3 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading Prudence — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · 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.)