A Topic of Moral Theology
The Moral Person
Societies as moral (juridical) persons: whether a moral person is a subject of rights distinct from its members taken together, its rights, and its liability to punishment.
Also asked about as…
corporation · juridical person · legal person (ed.)
In the index as Dominion · Possession · Roman law · Society compared with the multitude of its members · Goods · Moral · Names of a moral person · Person · The opinion of St. Thomas · Aggregates of things (*universitates rerum*) · Aristotle · Charity · Church · Cicero · Civil fruit · Communism of religious persons · Communities · Historical materialism · Individualism · Lugo (Cardinal de) · Moral person · Morally one person · Public and private societies · Right
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 I — Chapter I: On the Existence of Right, nn. 181 & 182 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Questions on Justice for Present-Day Use, Scholastically Disputed
Q. XIV, Chapter I: On the Moral Person in General, n. ¶4224 — Pothier, Traité des Personnes et des choses; von Savigny, System des heutigen römischen Rechts, vol. 2, chap. 2, §85 ff.; Brinz, Lehrbuch der Pandekten, pt. 2, sect. 2; Ihering, Der Geist des römischen Rechts; Taparelli,… Read in context →
Q. XIV, Ch. I, Article I. On the Historical and Present State of the Controversy, nn. 531, 532, ¶4225–¶4248, 533, ¶4249 & ¶4250 (29 passages — hover a number to read it)
Q. XIV, Ch. I, Article II. Formulation and Arguments of the Conclusion, nn. ¶4251, ¶4252, ¶4253, 534, ¶4254, ¶4255, ¶4256, ¶4257, ¶4258, ¶4259, ¶4260, ¶4261, ¶4262, ¶4263, ¶4264, ¶4265, 535, ¶4266, ¶4267, ¶4268, ¶4269, 536, ¶4270–¶4294, 537, ¶4295, ¶4296, ¶4297, ¶4298, 538, ¶4299, ¶4300, ¶4301, ¶4302, ¶4303, ¶4304, ¶4305, ¶4306, ¶4307, ¶4308, 539 & ¶4309–¶4326 (82 passages — hover a number to read it)
Q. XIV, Ch. I, Article III. Supplements to the Doctrine, nn. 540, ¶4327, 541, 542, ¶4328, ¶4329, 543, ¶4330, ¶4331, ¶4332, 544, 545, 546, 547, 548, 549, 550 & 551 (18 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, First Part: On Justice in …, Ch. II, Question Four: On the Subj…, Article VI: On the Dominion of Moral Persons, nn. 198 & 199 (13 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Rights — 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) · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V · Slater, Cases I · Rickaby, Moral Philosophy · Coppens, Moral Philosophy — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)