Selections from the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas

• From the Prima Secundae (on human action)

• Selected questions pertaining to virtue and vice. (We have attempted to choose the most important articles, leaving out those which are more speculative and less important for the sake of actually understanding what it means to live virtuously and how one acquires virtues. Our aim has been to make the translation as easy to understand as possible, while remaining faithful to the thought of St. Thomas.)
• On the passions (23-48)
• On habits (49-53)
• Virtues
• • On virtues: intellectual moral, theological virtues (54-62)
  • On the cause of virtues, their relationships, mean and duration (63-66)
• On the gifts of the Holy Spirit (67)
• Vice and Sin (A concise selection of the questions from the summa on vice and sin)
• • On vice and sin in general: their distinction and subjects (71-74)
  • On the causes of sin: ignorance, passion, cardinal sins (75-84)
  • Effects of sin: wounds of nature, punishment (85-87)
  • Mortal and venial sin (88-89)

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