Title page from Aquinas Ethicus: or, the Moral Teaching of St. Thomas, vol. 1

Part of: Aquinas Ethicus: or, the Moral Teaching of St. Thomas, 2 vols. Aquinas Ethicus: or, the Moral Teaching of St. Thomas, vol. 1

A translation of the principal portions of the second part of the Summa Theologica.

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War & Peace

The first thing is the authority of the prince by whose command the war is to be waged. It does not belong to a private person to start a war, for he can prosecute his claim in the court of his superior. In like manner the mustering of the people, that has to be done in wars, does not belong to a…

Law

(A) human law is laid down for a multitude, the majority of whom consists of men not perfect in virtue. And therefore not all the vices from which the virtuous abstain are prohibited by human law, but only those graver excesses from which it is possible for the majority of the multitude to abstain,…

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