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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas, Aquinas Saint; Richard J Regan; Brian Davies |
| ISBN: | 0195158539 9780195158533 0195091833 9780195091830 |
| OCLC Number: | 51293673 |
| Description: | xviii, 540 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Question I. On Evil -- 1. Is Evil an Entity? -- 2. Is There Evil in Good? -- 3. Is Good the Cause of Evil? -- 4. Is Evil Suitably Divided into the Evil of Moral Wrong and the Evil of Punishment? -- 5. Does Punishment or Moral Wrong Have More of the Nature of Evil? -- Question II. On Sins -- 1. Is an Act Involved in Every Sin? -- 2. Does Sin Consist Solely of the Will's Act? -- 3. Does Sin Consist Chiefly of Acts of the Will? -- 4. Is Every Act Morally Indifferent? -- 5. Are Some Acts Morally Indifferent? -- 6. Do Circumstances Specify Sins or Alter the Species of Sin by Transferring Them into Different Kinds of Sin? -- 7. Do Circumstances Make Sins More Serious without Imputing Species to Sins? -- 8. Do Circumstances Make Sins Infinitely More Serious, Namely, so as to Make Venial Sins Mortal? -- 9. Are All Sins Equal? -- 10. Are Sins More Serious Because They Are Contrary to a Greater Good? -- 11. Does Sin Diminish Natural Good? -- 12. Can Sin Destroy the Whole Natural Good? -- Question III. On the Causes of Sin -- 1. Does God Cause Sin? -- 2. Do Acts of Sin Come from God? -- 3. Does the Devil Cause Sin? -- 4. Can the Devil by Interior Persuasion Induce Human Beings to Sin? -- 5. Does the Devil Suggest Every Sin? -- 6. Regarding Human Sinners, Can Ignorance Cause Sin? -- 7. Is Ignorance a Sin? -- 8. Does Ignorance Excuse or Diminish Sin? -- 9. Can a Person Having Knowledge Sin out of Weakness? -- 10. Do We Impute Sins out of Weakness to Human Beings as Mortal Sins? -- 11. Does Weakness Make Sin Less or More Serious? -- 12. Can a Person Sin out of Malice, That is, Deliberate Malice? -- 13. Does the Sinner out of Malice Sin More Seriously than the Sinner out of Weakness? -- 14. Is Every Sin Done out of Malice a Sin against the Holy Spirit? -- 15. Can Sins against the Holy Spirit Be Forgiven? -- Question IV. On Original Sin -- 1. Is a Sin Contracted by Physical Descent? -- 2. What Is Original Sin? -- 3. Is Flesh or the Soul the Subject in Which Original Sin Inheres? -- 4. Does Original Sin Inhere in the Powers of the Soul Prior to Being in the Soul's Essence? -- 5. Does Original Sin Inhere in the Will Prior to Being in Other Powers? -- 6. Is Original Sin Transmitted by Adam to All Descendants from His Seed? -- 7. Do Those Begotten Only from Adam's Matter Contract Original Sin? -- 8. Are the Sins of Immediate Parents Transmitted by Physical Descent to Their Posterity? -- Question V. On the Punishment of Original Sin -- 1. Is Privation of the Vision of God a Fitting Punishment for Original Sin? -- 2. Does Original Sin Deserve Punishment of the Senses? -- 3. Do Those Who Die with Only Original Sin Suffer the Torment of Internal Anguish? -- 4. Are Death and Other Ills of This Life Punishment of Original Sin? -- 5. Are Death and Like Ills Natural to Human Beings? -- Question VI. On Human Choice -- 1. Do Human Beings Have Free Choice in Their Acts, or Do They Choose Necessarily? -- Question VII. On Venial Sin -- 1. Do We Properly Contradistinguish Venial Sin from Mortal Sin? -- 2. Does Venial Sin Diminish Charity? -- 3. Can Venial Sin Become Mortal? -- 4. Do Circumstances Make Venial Sins Mortal? -- 5. Can Venial Sin Belong to Higher Reason? -- 6. Can Venial Sin Belong to Sense Appetites? -- 7. Could Adam in the Condition of Innocence Have Sinned Venially? -- 8. Are the First Movements of the Sense Appetites of Unbelievers Venial Sins? -- 9. Can a Good or Bad Angel Sin Venially? -- 10. Is Venial Sin by One without Charity Punished by Eternal Punishment? -- 11. Are Any Venial Sins Remitted in Purgatory after This Life Ends? -- 12. Does Sprinkling Holy Water, Anointing the Body, and the Like Remit Venial Sins in This Life? -- Question VIII. On the Capital Sins -- 1. How Many Capital Sins Are There, and Which Sins Are? -- 2. Is Pride a Special Kind of Sin? -- 3. Does Pride Belong to Irascible Power? -- 4. Does Gregory Appropriately Assign Four Species of Pride? -- Question IX. On VainGlory -- 1. Is Vainglory a Sin? -- 2. Is Vainglory a Mortal Sin? -- 3. Do We Appropriately Assign Disobedience, Boasting, Hypocrisy, Contention, Obstinacy, Discord, and Audacity for Novelties as the Daughters of Vainglory? -- Question X. On Envy -- 1. Is Envy a Sin? -- 2. Is Envy a Mortal Sin? -- 3. Is Envy a Capital Sin? -- Question XI. On Spiritual Apathy -- 1. Is Spiritual Apathy a Sin? -- 2. Is Spiritual Apathy a Special Kind of Sin? -- 3. Is Spiritual Apathy a Mortal Sin? -- 4. Is Spiritual Apathy a Capital Sin? -- Question XII. On Anger -- 1. Is All Anger Sin, or Is Some Anger Good? -- 2. Can Anger Be a Sin? -- 3. Is Anger a Mortal Sin? -- 4. Is Anger a Less Serious Sin Than Hate and Envy and the Like? -- 5. Is Anger a Capital Sin? -- Question XIII. On Avarice -- 1. Is Avarice a Special Kind of Sin? -- 2. Is Avarice a Mortal Sin? -- 3. Is Avarice a Capital Sin? -- 4. Is Lending at Interest a Mortal Sin? -- Question XIV. On Gluttony -- 1. Is Gluttony Always a Sin? -- 2. Is Gluttony a Mortal Sin? -- 3. Does Gregory Appropriately List the Species of Gluttony? -- 4. Is Gluttony a Capital Sin? -- Question XV. On Sexual Lust -- 1. Is Every Act of Sexual Lust a Sin? -- 2. Is Every Act of Sexual Lust a Mortal Sin? -- 3. Are Fornication, Adultery, Incest, Seduction of a Virgin, Rape, and Sins Contrary to Nature the Species of Sexual Lust? -- 4. Is Sexual Lust a Capital Sin? -- Question XVI. On Devils -- 1. Do Devils Have Bodies Joined to Them by Nature? -- 2. Are Devils Evil by Their Nature or Their Will? -- 3. Did the Devil in Sinning Desire Equality with God? -- 4. Did the Devil Sin, or Could He Have Sinned, at the First Moment of His Creation? -- 5. Can Devils' Free Choice Return to Good after Their Sin? -- 6. Is a Devil's Intellect So Darkened after Sin That It Can Err or Be Deceived? -- 7. Do Devils Know Future Things? -- 8. Do Devils Know Our Interior Thoughts? -- 9. Can Devils Alter Material Substances by Changing the Substances' Forms? -- 10. Can Devils Cause the Locomotion of Material Substances? -- 11. Can Devils Affect the Soul's Cognitive Powers Regarding the Internal or External Senses? -- 12. Can Devils Affect Human Beings' Intellect? -- Comparable Passages in Other Works of Aquinas -- Non-Biblical Texts Cited. |
| Other Titles: | Quaestiones disputatae de malo. |
| Responsibility: | Thomas Aquinas ; translated by Richard Regan ; edited with an introduction and notes by Brian Davies. |
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