A Topic of Moral Theology
The Minimum Wage and the Family Wage
Whether commutative justice sets a lower limit to the wage; the absolute and the relative family wage; what Rerum Novarum teaches of the wage owed to a frugal and upright worker.
The works themselves ask 3 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Also asked about as…
living wage (ed.)
In the index as Authority of encyclicals · Unmarried man · Charity · Collective wage · Equity (epieikeia) · Relative family wage · Excuse for a lesser wage · General or legal justice · Wage · Decent livelihood · Just wage · Nature · Personal independence of men · Price · Rationale of the family wage · Sacred Scripture · Salary of workers · Community of goods · Economists · General prosperity · Genesis · Infants to be nourished with their mother’s milk · Iron law of wages · Labor
In the manuals
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Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology
Vol. III, Contracts, and the Obligat…, On the Virtue of Justice (…, Part II — Chapter II: On Contracts in Particular, nn. 817, 818, 819, 820, 821, 822, 823, 824, 825 & 826 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)
Questions on Justice for Present-Day Use, Scholastically Disputed
Q. X, Ch. II, Article II. On the Lower Limit of a Just Wage, nn. 417, ¶3566, ¶3567, ¶3568, ¶3569, ¶3570 & 418 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)
Q. X, Ch. II, Art. II, § 1. On the Acts of the Holy See, nn. 419, ¶3571–¶3584, 420, ¶3585, ¶3586, ¶3587, ¶3588, ¶3589, ¶3590, ¶3591, ¶3592, ¶3593, ¶3594, ¶3595, 421, ¶3596, ¶3597, ¶3598, ¶3599 & ¶3600 (33 passages — hover a number to read it)
Q. X, Ch. II, Art. II, § 2. First Approach to the Disputation, nn. ¶3601, 422, ¶3602, ¶3603, ¶3604, 423, 424, 425, ¶3605, 426, ¶3606, ¶3607, ¶3608, ¶3609, ¶3610, ¶3611, 427, 428, ¶3612, ¶3613, ¶3614, ¶3615, 429, ¶3616–¶3630, 430, ¶3631, 431, ¶3632, ¶3633, 432, ¶3634, ¶3635, ¶3636, ¶3637, ¶3638, ¶3639, ¶3640, 433, 434, ¶3641, ¶3642, ¶3643, 435 & 436 (58 passages — hover a number to read it)
Q. X, Ch. II, Art. II, § 3. Formulation and Arguments of the Conclusion, nn. ¶3644, 437, ¶3645, ¶3646, ¶3647, ¶3648, ¶3649, ¶3650, ¶3651, ¶3652, ¶3653, ¶3654, ¶3655, 438, ¶3656, ¶3657, ¶3658, ¶3659, ¶3660, 439, ¶3661–¶3699, 440 & ¶3700–¶3750 (111 passages — hover a number to read it)
Q. X, Ch. II, Art. II, § 4. Supplements to the Doctrine, nn. 441, ¶3751, ¶3752, ¶3753, ¶3754, ¶3755, 442, 443, 444, ¶3756, ¶3757, ¶3758, ¶3759, ¶3760, ¶3761, ¶3762, ¶3763, ¶3764, ¶3765, 445, ¶3766, ¶3767, 446, ¶3768, ¶3769, ¶3770, 447, ¶3771, ¶3772, ¶3773, ¶3774, 448, ¶3775, ¶3776, 449, ¶3777, ¶3778, ¶3779, ¶3780, 450, ¶3781, ¶3782, ¶3783, 451, ¶3784, 452, ¶3785, ¶3786, 453, ¶3787, ¶3788, ¶3789, 454, ¶3790, ¶3791, ¶3792, ¶3793, ¶3794, ¶3795, ¶3796 & ¶3797 (61 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. III, Question Two: On Letting a…, Article III: On the Letting of Services, or On the Contract of Labor, nn. 552, 553 & 554 (43 passages — hover a number to read it)
Socialism: Its Theoretical Basis and Practical Application
Cathrein, Socialism, Appendix, Encyclical Letter of Pope Leo XIII On the Condition of Labor (Rerum Novarum), nn. ¶1025, ¶1026, ¶1027 & ¶1028 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading The Wage of Workers — Bucceroni, Commentaries (1910) · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Koch–Preuss · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Slater, Cases I · Coppens, Moral Philosophy — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)