A Topic of Moral Theology
Two Kinds of Voluntary Acts
The perfectly and the imperfectly voluntary, and the degrees of self-determination between them.
In the index as Voluntary · Acts · Intention · Involuntary · Omission of an act · Will · Imputability of the human act · Taciturnity · *Voluntarium* · A free act · Consent · Direct voluntary · Election · Free-will · Fruition · Negative voluntary · Positive voluntary · Spontaneous actions · Use · Voluntary acts · Willed · Wish
In the manuals
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Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)
Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology, On the Principles of Moral…, Book Second. On Acts Apt F…, First Question. On Human A…, Second Article. On The Voluntary And The Involuntary, nn. ¶1, 42, 43 & 44 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)
Vol. I, Pt. I, Q. I, Art. 2. Acts as Human, Two Kinds of Voluntary Acts, nn. 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61 & 62 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)
Commentaries on Human Acts (Commentarii de Actibus Humanis)
Bucceroni, Commentaries on Human Acts, Commentary I: On the Voluntary, n. 16 — 16. But properly and strictly such a voluntary is so not only materially, because the voluntary is narrowed to the free, but also formally, since then the act, as has also been said, is from an intrinsic principle simply… Read in context →
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. II, Art. I, § I. On the Voluntary in General, n. 5 (6 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. I, Section 5: Voluntary Acts, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7, ¶8, ¶9, ¶10 & ¶11 (11 passages — hover a number to read it)
Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Vol. I, Pt. I, Tr. II, Ch. II, Art. II, § 1. On The Quiddity And Division Of The Voluntary, nn. 49 & 55 (2 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. I, Question One: On the Volun…, Article II: On the Voluntary Both Positive and Direct, and Negative and Indirect, nn. ¶1, 59, 60 & 61 (16 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Summae S. Thomae (Billuart)
Billuart, Summa Summae, Tomus II. On the Prima Sec…, On Human Acts, On the Voluntary and the I…, What is the voluntary, and of how many kinds?, nn. 3 & 4 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading The kinds of voluntariety — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Tanquerey · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)