Contents
Foreword by Ralph McInerney
General Introduction
Practical Wisdom (Prudence)
Introduction
Article 1: Is prudence in the faculty of reason?
Article 4: Is practical wisdom a virtue?
Article 6: Does practical wisdom appoint the end to moral virtues?
Article 13: Can practical wisdom be in sinners?
Article 14: Is practical wisdom in all who have grace?
Article 15: Is practical wisdom in us by nature?
Article 1: Is practical wisdom fittingly divided into three parts?
Article 3: Is teachableness a part of practical wisdom?
Article 6: Is foresight a part of practical wisdom?
Article 1: Should counsel be considered among the gifts of the Holy Spirit?
Article 1: Is imprudence a sin?
Article 5: Is inconstancy [lack of persistance] a vice against practical wisdom?
Article 1: Is prudence of the flesh a sin?
Article 2: Is prudence of the flesh a mortal sin?
Article 3: Is craftiness a special sin?
Article 6: Is anxious care about temporal things contrary to prudence?
Article 1: Should the Ten Commandments have included a precept of practical wisdom?
Justice
Introduction
Article 1: Is right the object of justice?
Article 2: Is right fittingly divided into natural right and positive right?
Article 1: Is justice fittingly defined as being the perpetual and constant will to render to each one his right?
Article 3: Is justice a virtue?
Article 8: Does particular justice have a special matter?
Article 9: Is justice about the passions?
Article 11: Is the act of justice to render to each one his own?
Article 12: Is justice the foremost among all moral virtues?
Article 2: Is a person unjust through doing an unjust thing?
Article 4: Does anyone who does an unjust act sin mortally?
Article 2: Is it moral to judge people?
Article 4: Should doubts be interpreted for the best?
Article 1: Is justice suitably divided into commutative justice and distributive justice?
Article 5: Must restitution always be made to the person from whom a thing has been taken?
Article 1: Is it immoral to kill any living thing?
Article 2: Is capital punishment moral?
Article 5: Is suicide moral?
Article 6: Is it moral to kill the innocent?
Article 7: Is it moral to kill a person in self-defense?
Article 8: Is one guilty of murder through killing someone by chance?
Article 3: Is it moral to imprison a man?
Article 2: Is private property moral?
Article 5: Is theft always a sin?
Article 6: Is theft a mortal sin?
Article 7: Is it moral to steal through stress of need?
Article 4: Is it always a mortal sin to give false evidence?
Article 3: Does a lawyer sin by defending an unjust cause?
Article 2: Is it a mortal sin to speak ill of absent persons in order to undermine their reputation?
Article 1: Is it a sin to take usury for money lent?
Article 3: Is omission a special sin?
Article 4: Is a sin of omission worse than a sin of commission?
Article 2: Is religion a virtue?
Article 5: Is Religion a theological virtue?
Article 6: Should religion be preferred to the other moral virtues?
Article 2: Does it make sense to pray?
Article 3: Is prayer an act of religion?
Article 4: Should we pray to God alone?
Article 6: Should we ask God for temporal things when we pray?
Article 8: Should we pray for our enemies?
Article 1: Is offering a sacrifice to God part of the law of nature?
Article 1: Is superstition a vice contrary to religion?
Article 1: Does piety extend to particular human individuals?
Article 4: Should God be obeyed in all things?
Article 5: Are subjects bound to obey their superiors in all things?
Article 2: Is disobedience the most serious of sins?
Article 1: Is thankfulness a special virtue, distinct from other virtues?
Article 1: Is ingratitude always a sin?
Article 2: Is ingratitude a special sin?
Article 4: Should favors be withheld from the ungrateful?
Article 1: Is vengeance permissible?
Article 1: Is every lie a sin?
Article 4: Is every lie a mortal sin?
Article 5: Is greed the greatest of sins?
Article 1: Are the precepts of the Ten Commandments precepts of justice?
Article 6: Are the other six precepts of the Ten Commandments fittingly expressed?
Courage (Fortitude)
Introduction
Article 1: Is courage a virtue?
Article 5: Is courage properly about dangers of death in battle?
Article 10: Does the brave person make use of anger in his action?
Article 11: Is courage a cardinal virtue?
Article 12: Is courage the greatest of virtues?
Article 1: Is martyrdom an act of virtue?
Article 5: Is faith alone the cause of martyrdom?
Article 1: Is fear a sin?
Article 2: Is the sin of fear contrary to courage?
Article 4: Does fear excuse from sin?
Article 1: Is fearlessness a sin?
Article 2: Is fearlessness opposed to courage?
Article 3: Is magnanimity a virtue?
Article 1: Is presumption a sin?
Article 1: Is ambition a sin?
Article 5: Are the consequences of vainglory disobedience, boastfulness, hypocrisy, contention, obstinacy, discord, and love of novelties?
Article 1: Is pusillanimity (faintheartedness) a sin?
Article 1: Is patience a virtue?
Article 3: Is it possible to have patience without grace?
Article 1: Is courage a gift?
Temperance
Introduction
Article 1: Is temperance a virtue?
Article 3: Is temperance only about desires and pleasures?
Article 4: Is temperance only about desires and pleasures of touch?
Article 7: Is temperance a cardinal virtue?
Article 8: Is temperance the greatest of the virtues?
Article 1: Is insensibility a vice?
Article 3: Is cowardice worse than intemperance?
Article 1: Is fasting a virtue?
Article 3: Is fasting a matter of obligation?
Article 1: Is gluttony a sin?
Article 4: Are the kinds of gluttony fittingly distinguished?
Article 5: Is gluttony a capital vice?
Article 3: Is it always wrong to drink wine?
Article 1: Is it wrong to get drunk?
Article 2: Is drunkenness a mortal sin?
Article 4: Does drunkenness excuse from sin?
Article 1: Is chastity a virtue?
Article 2: Is chastity a general virtue?
Article 2: Is it wrong to remain a virgin?
Article 3: Is virginity a virtue?
Article 4: Is virginity more excellent than marriage?
Article 2: Is every sexual act a sin?
Article 3: Is the lust that is brought about by sexual acts a sin?
Article 2: Is premarital sex (simple fornication) a mortal sin?
Article 3: Is premarital sex the most grievous of sins?
Article 8: Is adultery a special kind of lust?
Article 11: Is the unnatural vice a species of lust?
Article 1: Is continence a virtue?
Article 4: Is continence better than temperance?
Article 2: Is incontinence a sin?
Article 3: Does the incontinent person sin more gravely than the intemperate person?
Article 4: Is the incontinent in anger worse than the incontinent in desire?
Article 1: Is it ethically permissible to be angry?
Article 2: Is anger a sin?
Article 1: Is humility a virtue?
Article 1: Is pride a sin?
General Index
Scripture Index