On Evil

by St Thomas Aquinas

• ISBN13: 9780268037147
• ISBN10: 0268037140
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Summary

The De Malo represents some of Aquinas' most mature thinking on goodness, badness, and human agency. In it he examines the full range of questions associated with evil: its origin, its nature, its relation to good, and its compatibility with the existence of an omnipotent, benevolent God. Thisedition offers Richard Regan's new, clear readable English translation, based on the Leonine Commission's authoritative edition of the Latin text. Brian Davies has provided an extensive introduction and notes. (Please note: this edition does not include the Latin text).

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
On Evil	1	(39)
Whether Evil is Something?	1	(10)
Whether Evil Exists in Good?	11	(6)
Whether Good Is the Cause of Evil?	17	(9)
Whether Evil Is Properly Divided into Punishment and Fault?	26	(6)
Whether Punishment or Fault Has More of the Nature of Evil?	32	(8)
On Sins	40	(62)
Whether Every Sin Involves an Act?	40	(7)
Whether Sin Consists Solely in the Act of the Will?	47	(7)
Whether Sin Consists Principally in the Act of the Will?	54	(3)
Whether Every Act Is Indifferent?	57	(7)
Whether Some Acts Are Indifferent?	64	(6)
Whether a Circumstance Gives Species to a Sin or Changes the Species by Transferring It into Another Genus of Sin?	70	(7)
Whether a Circumstance Makes a Sin Worse without Giving Species to the Sin?	77	(3)
Whether a Circumstance Aggravates a Sin Infinitely so as to Make a Venial Sin Mortal?	80	(2)
Whether All Sins Are Equal?	82	(7)
Whether a Sin Is Graver because It Is Contrary to a Greater Good?	89	(2)
Whether Sin Diminishes the Good of a Nature?	91	(7)
Whether Sin Can Corrupt the Whole Good of the Nature?	98	(4)
On the Cause of Sin	102	(62)
Whether God Is the Cause of Sin?	102	(6)
Whether the Action of Sin is from God?	108	(3)
Whether the Devil Is the Cause of Sin?	111	(7)
Whether the Devil Can Induce Man to Sin by Internal Persuasion?	118	(3)
Whether All Sins Are Suggested by the Devil?	121	(2)
Whether Ignorance Can Be the Cause of Sin?	123	(3)
Whether Ignorance Is a Sin?	126	(5)
Whether Ignorance Excuses Sin or Diminishes It?	131	(4)
Whether It Is Possible for Someone Having Knowledge to Sin from Weakness?	135	(6)
Whether Sins Committed from Weakness Are Imputed to Man as a Mortal Fault?	141	(3)
Whether Weakness Alleviates or Aggravates Sin?	144	(1)
Whether Anyone Can Sin from Malice, i.e., with Malice Aforethought?	145	(5)
Whether He Who Sins from Malice Sins More Gravely than He Who Since from Weakness?	150	(3)
Whether Every Sin from Malice Is a Sin against the Holy Spirit?	153	(7)
Whether a Sin against the Holy Spirit Can Be Forgiven?	160	(4)
On Original Sin	164	(44)
Whether Any Sin Is Contracted by Way of Origin?	164	(8)
What Is Original Sin?	172	(10)
Whether Original Sin Is in the Flesh or in the Soul as in a Subject?	182	(3)
Whether Original Sin First Is in the Powers of the Soul Rather than in the Essence?	185	(3)
Whether Original Sin First Is in the Will Rather than in the Other Powers?	188	(2)
Whether Original Sin Is Transmitted from Adam to All Who Seminally Derive from Him?	190	(8)
Whether Those Who Originate from Adam Only by Way of Matter Contract Original Sin?	198	(3)
Whether Sins of Near Ancestors Are Transmitted by Way of Origin to Their Descendants?	201	(7)
On the Punishment of Original Sin	208	(26)
Whether Deprival of the Vision of God Is a Fitting Punishment for Original Sin?	208	(6)
Whether the Punishment of Sense Is Incurred for Original Sin?	214	(4)
Whether Those Who Die with Only Original Sin Suffer the Affliction of Interior Pain?	218	(2)
Whether Death and Other Ills in This Life Are a Punishment for Original Sin?	220	(5)
Whether Death and Other Such Defects Are Natural to Man?	225	(9)
On Human Choice	234	(14)
Whether Man Has a Free Choice of His Acts or Chooses of Necessity?	234	(14)
On Venial Sin	248	(59)
Whether Venial Sin Is Properly Divided against Mortal Sin?	248	(9)
Whether Venial Sin Diminishes Charity?	257	(8)
Whether Venial Sin Can Become Mortal?	265	(7)
Whether a Circumstance Makes a Venial Sin Mortal?	272	(2)
Whether There Can Be Venial Sin in the Higher Reason?	274	(5)
Whether in Sensuality There Can Be Venial Sin?	279	(3)
Whether Man in the State of Innocence Could Sin Venially?	282	(7)
Whether the First Movements of Sensuality in Unbelievers Are Venial Sins?	289	(1)
Whether a Good or a Bad Angel Can Sin Venially?	290	(2)
Whether Venial Sin in a Person Not Having Charity Is Punished by Eternal Punishment?	292	(5)
Whether Any Venial Sins Are Remitted in Purgatory after This Life?	297	(7)
Whether Venial Sins Are Remitted in This Life by the Aspersion of Holy Water, Anointing of the Body, and the Like?	304	(3)
On the Capital Vices	307	(29)
How Many Capital Vices Are There, and What Are They?	307	(10)
Whether Pride Is a Special Sin?	317	(8)
Whether Pride Is in the Irascible Power?	325	(7)
On the Species of Pride	332	(4)
On Vainglory	336	(11)
Whether Vainglory Is a Sin?	336	(4)
Whether Vainglory Is a Mortal Sin?	340	(4)
On the Daughters of Vainglory, Which Are Disobedience, Boasting, Hypocrisy, Contention, Obstinacy, Discord, Presumption of Novelties	344	(3)
On Envy	347	(12)
Whether Envy Is a Sin?	347	(4)
Whether Envy Is a Mortal Sin?	351	(5)
Whether Envy is a Capital Vice?	356	(3)
On Acedia	359	(12)
Whether Acedia Is a Sin?	359	(4)
Whether Acedia Is a Special Sin?	363	(2)
Whether Acedia Is a Mortal Sin?	365	(3)
Whether Acedia Is a Capital Vice?	368	(3)
On Anger	371	(20)
Whether All Anger Is Evil, or Is Some Anger Good?	371	(6)
Whether Anger Can Be a Sin or Not?	377	(4)
Whether Anger Is a Mortal Sin?	381	(4)
Whether Anger Is a Less Grievous Sin than Hatred and Envy and Other Sins of This Kind?	385	(3)
Whether Anger Is a Capital Vice?	388	(3)
On Avarice	391	(19)
Whether Avarice Is a Special Vice?	391	(3)
Whether Avarice Is a Mortal Sin?	394	(4)
Whether Avarice Is a Capital Vice?	398	(2)
Whether Lending at Usury Is a Mortal Sin?	400	(10)
On Gluttony	410	(14)
Whether Gluttony Is Always a Sin?	410	(3)
Whether Gluttony Is a Mortal Sin?	413	(5)
On the Species of Gluttony	418	(3)
Whether Gluttony Is a Capital Vice?	421	(3)
On Lust	424	(17)
Whether Every Act of Lust Is a Sin?	424	(5)
Whether Every Act of Lust Is a Mortal Sin?	429	(7)
On the Species of Lust, Which Are Fornication, Adultery, Incest, Seduction, Rape, and the Unnatural Vice	436	(2)
Whether Lust Is a Capital Vice?	438	(3)
On the Demons	441	(96)
Whether the Demons Have Bodies Naturally United to Them?	441	(11)
Whether Demons are Evil by Nature or by Will?	452	(10)
Whether the Devil Sinned by Desiring Equality with God?	462	(7)
Whether the Devil Sinned or Could Sin in the First Instant of His Creation?	469	(11)
Whether the Free Will of the Demons Can Return to Good after Sin?	480	(8)
Whether the Devil's Intellect Is So Darkened after Sin That480 He Can Fall into Error or Deception?	488	(10)
Whether the Demons Know Future Events?	498	(10)
Whether the Demons Know the Cogitations of Our Hearts?	508	(6)
Whether Demons Can Transform Bodies by Changing Their Form?	514	(6)
Whether the Demons Can Move Bodies Locally?	520	(4)
Whether the Demons Can Change the Cognitive Part of the Soul by Changing the Internal and External Sense Powers?	524	(6)
Whether the Demons Can Change Man's Intellect?	530	(7)
Appendix	537