A Topic of Moral Theology

The Object

The object of the act as the primary source of its morality: what the act of its nature is.

Within this topic

Also asked about as…

object of a human act (ed.)

In the index as Object · Human act · Act · Human Acts · Intention · Object of the human act · Danger · End · Fasting · Intrinsically · Means to end · Moral object: what it is, of how many kinds · Morality · Object of a human act · Prayer · *Materia levis—gravis* · Almsgiving · Church · End of an action · Evil · Goepfert, F. A. · Good · Good intention · Hatred

In the manuals

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)

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. I, Bk. I, Tr. II, Diss. II, Pt. I, Sect. II, Chapter I. On the Object, nn. 65 & 66 (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 →

Cases of Conscience, Proposed by Cardinal de Lugo, by Fr. Beniamino Elbel, by Fr. Ioannes Petrus Gury and by Other Authors, and Resolved (Casus conscientiae)

9. On the Object of Morality, nn. 1, 2 & 3 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)

Commentaries on Human Acts (Commentarii de Actibus Humanis)

Bucceroni, Commentaries on Human Acts, Commentary XI: On the Object of Human Acts, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

A Handbook of Moral Theology (Koch–Preuss)

Vol. I, Its Subject, Norm, and Object, Morality, Its Subject, Norm, and Object, Ch. V, Section 3: Morality of Human Acts, nn. ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7, ¶8 & ¶9 (6 passages — hover a number to read it)

Theologia Moralis: Principles — Responses — Counsels

Vol. I, Tr. II, Ch. III, § 1. On the Object Taken More Strictly, nn. 114 & 115 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Vol. I, Pt. I, Tr. II, Ch. III, Art. II, § 1. On the Object, nn. 111, 112 & 113 (3 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)

Compendium of Moral Theology

Vol. I, Tr. I, Ch. IV, Art. II, § I. On the Object, n. 25 — The object is that about which a moral act is immediately concerned, and in which the will of the agent proximately and through itself is terminated. The object is good or bad or indifferent according as it agrees or doe… Read in context →

Summa Summae S. Thomae (Billuart)

Billuart, Summa Summae, Tomus II. On the Prima Sec…, On Human Acts, On Human Acts in Their Mor…, On the principles of morality, nn. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law

Pt. I, Ch. III, Section II. Of the determinants of morality in any given action, nn. 12, 13, 14, 15 & 16 (5 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)

Treated under the broader heading The Sources of Morality — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Coppens, Moral Philosophy — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)