A Topic of Moral Theology
The Observance of Other Social Laws
The Observance of Other Social Laws, as treated in Wouters (IV. On the Observance of Other Social Laws).
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breaking minor laws · building codes · obeying civil laws · regulations · traffic laws and sin (ed.)
In the index as Legal justice · Perfect society · State · Virtue · Civil power · Goods · Peace · Princes · Social · Vice
In the manuals
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Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. II, Diss. I, Appendix II. On Legal Just…, IV. On the Observance of Other Social Laws, n. 1061 — It is enough to have noted these things: other social laws, just as the laws already explained, seem mixed; yet in general they do not oblige from commutative justice, but from legal justice or another virtue, unless the… Read in context →
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Second Part: Concerning Le…, Question One: Concerning the Common Good to Be Pursued, nn. ¶1, 262, 263, 264, 265 & 266 (26 passages — hover a number to read it)
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Second Part: Concerning Le…, Question Two: Concerning the Procuration of the Common Good, nn. ¶1, 267, 268 & 269 (51 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Legal Justice: Taxes, Military Service, Social Laws — McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Slater, Back to Morality — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)