- ISBN: 9781587318801 | 1587318806
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- Copyright: 5/15/2009
This new English translation of St. Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law, found in Questions 90-108 of the First Part of the Second Part of the Summa Theologiae, is the only free-standing English translation of the entire Treatise, which includes both a general account of law (Questions 90-92) and also specific treatments of what St. Thomas identifies as the five kinds of law: the eternal law (Question 93), the natural law (Question 94), human law (Questions 95-97), the Old Law (Questions 98-105), and the New Law (Questions 106-108).
| Question 90 The Essence of Law | p. 1 |
| Article 1 Is law something that belongs to reason? | p. 1 |
| Article 2 Is law always ordered toward the common good as its end? | p. 3 |
| Article 3 Whose reason is it that makes law? | p. 5 |
| Article 4 Is promulgation part of the nature of law? | p. 6 |
| Question 91 The Different Kinds of Law | p. 8 |
| Article 1 Is there such a thing as eternal law? | p. 8 |
| Article 2 Is there any such thing as natural law in us? | p. 9 |
| Article 3 Is there any such thing as human law? | p. 11 |
| Article 4 Was it necessary for there to be such a thing as divine law? | p. 13 |
| Article 5 Is there just a single divine law? | p. 15 |
| Article 6 Is there such a thing as a 'law of the stimulant [to sin]"? | p. 17 |
| Question 92 The Effects of Law | p. 20 |
| Article 1 Is it the role of law to make men good? | p. 20 |
| Article 2 Are the acts of law correctly enumerated when one says that the acts of law are to command, to forbid, to permit, and to punish? | p. 22 |
| Question 93 The Eternal Law | p. 25 |
| Article 1 Is the eternal law the highest conception or plan existing in God? | p. 25 |
| Article 2 Is the eternal law known to everyone? | p. 27 |
| Article 3 Does every law flow from the eternal law? | p. 28 |
| Article 4 Are necessary and eternal things subject to the eternal law? | p. 30 |
| Article 5 Are natural contingent things subject to the eternal law? | p. 32 |
| Article 6 Are all human affairs subject to the eternal law? | p. 34 |
| Question 94 The Natural Law | p. 37 |
| Article 1 Is the natural law a habit? | p. 37 |
| Article 2 Does the natural law contain many precepts or just one precept? | p. 38 |
| Article 3 Do all the acts of the virtues belong to the law of nature? | p. 41 |
| Article 4 Is there a single law of nature for everyone? | p. 43 |
| Article 5 Can the law of nature be changed? | p. 45 |
| Article 6 Can the natural law be wiped out of a man's heart? | p. 47 |
| Question 95 Human Law | p. 49 |
| Article 1 Was it useful for laws to be made by men? | p. 49 |
| Article 2 Does every humanly made law stem from the natural law? | p. 51 |
| Article 3 Does Isidore appropriately describe the characteristics of positive law? | p. 53 |
| Article 4 Is Isidore's division of human laws appropriate? | p. 55 |
| Question 96 The Force of Human Law | p. 58 |
| Article 1 Should human law be made in a general way or for particular cases instead? | p. 58 |
| Article 2 Should human law suppress all vices? | p. 60 |
| Article 3 Does human law command the acts of all the virtues? | p. 61 |
| Article 4 Does human law impose an obligation in conscience on a man? | p. 63 |
| Article 5 Is everyone subject to human law? | p. 65 |
| Article 6 Is one who is subject to the law permitted to act outside the letter of the law? | p. 67 |
| Question 97 Changes in Human Law | p. 70 |
| Article 1 Should human law in any way be changed? | p. 70 |
| Article 2 Should human law always be changed when something better comes along? | p. 71 |
| Article 3 Can custom acquire the force of law or nullify a law? | p. 73 |
| Article 4 Can the rulers of the people give dispensations from human laws? | p. 75 |
| Question 98 The Old Law | p. 78 |
| Article 1 Was the Old Law good? | p. 78 |
| Article 2 Was the Old Law from God? | p. 80 |
| Article 3 Was the Old Law given through the mediation of angels or was it given directly by God? | p. 82 |
| Article 4 Was it fitting for the Old Law to have been given only to the Jewish people? | p. 84 |
| Article 5 Were all men obliged to observe the Old Law? | p. 87 |
| Article 6 Was it appropriate for the Old Law to have been given at the time of Moses? | p. 89 |
| Question 99 The Precepts of the Old Law | p. 92 |
| Article 1 Does the Old Law contain just one precept? | p. 92 |
| Article 2 Does the Old Law contain moral precepts? | p. 93 |
| Article 3 Does the Old Law contain ceremonial precepts in addition to the moral precepts? | p. 95 |
| Article 4 Does the Old Law contain judicial precepts in addition to the moral and ceremonial precepts? | p. 97 |
| Article 5 Are there any precepts contained in the Old Law in addition to the moral, ceremonial, and judicial precepts? | p. 99 |
| Article 6 Was it right for the Old Law to have induced the observance of its precepts by temporal promises and threats? | p. 101 |
| Question 100 The Moral Precepts of the Old Law | p. 104 |
| Article 1 Do all the moral precepts of the Old Law belong to the law of nature? | p. 104 |
| Article 2 Do the moral precepts of the Law have to do with all the acts of the virtues? | p. 106 |
| Article 3 Are all the moral precepts of the Old Law traced back to the ten precepts of the Decalogue? | p. 108 |
| Article 4 Are the precepts of the Decalogue correctly distinguished from one another? | p. 110 |
| Article 5 Is there an appropriate number of precepts in the Decalogue? | p. 112 |
| Article 6 Are the precepts of the Decalogue correctly ordered? | p. 117 |
| Article 7 Are the precepts of the Decalogue set down in an appropriate way? | p. 120 |
| Article 8 Can dispensations be granted from the precepts of the Decalogue? | p. 122 |
| Article 9 Does the mode of virtue fall under a precept of the Law? | p. 125 |
| Article 10 Does the mode of charity fall under a precept of divine law? | p. 127 |
| Article 11 Is it correct to mark out moral precepts of the Law in addition to the Decalogue? | p. 129 |
| Article 12 Did the moral precepts of the Old Law give justification [before God]? | p. 133 |
| Question 101 The Ceremonial Precepts of the Old Law in Themselves | p. 135 |
| Article 1 Does the reason for the ceremonial precepts lie in their having to do with the worship of God? | p. 135 |
| Article 2 Are the ceremonial precepts figurative? | p. 137 |
| Article 3 Was it right for there to be a multiplicity of ceremonial precepts? | p. 140 |
| Article 4 Are the ceremonies of the Old Law correctly divided into sacrifices, sacred things, sacraments, and observances? | p. 142 |
| Question 102 The Reasons for the Ceremonial Precepts | p. 145 |
| Article 1 Are there reasons for the ceremonial precepts? | p. 145 |
| Article 2 Do the ceremonial precepts have literal reasons or only figurative reasons? | p. 147 |
| Article 3 Can appropriate reasons be assigned for the ceremonies that involve sacrifices? | p. 149 |
| Article 4 Can appropriate reasons be assigned for the ceremonies that involve the sacred things? | p. 158 |
| Article 5 Can appropriate reasons be assigned for the sacraments of the Old Law? | p. 171 |
| Article 6 Are there reasoned causes for the ceremonial observances? | p. 189 |
| Question 103 The Duration of the Ceremonial Precepts | p. 201 |
| Article 1 Did the ceremonies of the Law exist before the Law existed? | p. 201 |
| Article 2 Did the ceremonies of the Old Law have the power to confer justification at the time of the Law? | p. 203 |
| Article 3 Did the ceremonies of the Old Law cease with the coming of Christ? | p. 206 |
| Article 4 Can the ceremonial precepts be observed without mortal sin after Christ's passion? | p. 209 |
| Question 104 The Judicial Precepts of the Old Law | p. 214 |
| Article 1 Does the nature of the judicial precepts consist in their directing a man in his relations with his neighbor? | p. 214 |
| Article 2 Are the judicial precepts figures of anything? | p. 216 |
| Article 3 Do the judicial precepts of the Old Law have perpetual binding force? | p. 218 |
| Article 4 Can the judicial precepts be divided into set kinds? | p. 220 |
| Question 105 The Reasons for the Judicial Precepts | p. 222 |
| Article 1 Did the Old Law give appropriate direction concerning the rulers? | p. 222 |
| Article 2 Were appropriate judicial precepts given with respect to the common life of the people? | p. 226 |
| Article 3 Were appropriate judicial precepts given with respect to outsiders? | p. 239 |
| Article 4 Did the Old Law issue appropriate precepts with respect to household members? | p. 243 |
| Question 106 The Law of the Gospel, called the New Law, in Itself | p. 250 |
| Article 1 Is the New Law a written law? | p. 250 |
| Article 2 Does the New Law confer justification? | p. 252 |
| Article 3 Should the New Law have been given from the beginning? | p. 254 |
| Article 4 Will the New Law last until the end of the world? | p. 256 |
| Question 107 The Relation between the Old Law and the New Law | p. 260 |
| Article 1 Is the New Law different from the Old Law? | p. 260 |
| Article 2 Does the New Law bring the Old Law to fulfillment? | p. 263 |
| Article 3 Is the New Law contained within the Old Law? | p. 267 |
| Article 4 Is the New Law more burdensome than the Old Law? | p. 269 |
| Question 108 The Contents of the New Law | p. 272 |
| Article 1 Should the New Law command or prohibit any exterior acts? | p. 272 |
| Article 2 Does the New Law give adequate direction to exterior acts? | p. 275 |
| Article 3 Does the New Law give man adequate direction with respect to interior acts? | p. 278 |
| Article 4 Is it appropriate for certain determinate counsels to be proposed in the New Law? | p. 283 |
| Index | p. 286 |
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