Treatise on Law

Treatise on Law

Thomas Aquinas, Italian dominican friar and priest and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism (1225-1274)


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Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Prologue

- Law In General

- Article 1. Whether Law Is Something Pertaining To Reason

- Article 2. Whether The Law Is Always Something Directed To The Common Good

- Article 3. Whether The Reason Of Any Man Is Competent To Make Laws

- Article 4. Whether Promulgation Is Essential To A Law

- Question 91. Of The Various Kinds Of Law

- Article 1. Whether There Is An Eternal Law

- Article 2. Whether There Is In Us A Natural Law

- Article 3. Whether There Is A Human Law

- Article 4. Whether There Was Any Need For A Divine Law

- Article 5. Whether There Is But One Divine Law

- Article 6. Whether There Is A Law In The Fomes Of Sin

- Question 92. Of The Effects Of Law

- Article 1. Whether An Effect Of Law Is To Make Men Good

- Article 2. Whether The Acts Of Law Are Suitably Assigned

- Law In Particular

- Question 93. Of The Eternal Law

- Article 1. Whether The Eternal Law Is A Sovereign Type Existing In God

- Article 2. Whether The Eternal Law Is Known To All

- Article 3. Whether Every Law Is Derived From The Eternal Law

- Article 4. Whether Necessary And Eternal Things Are Subject To The Eternal Law

- Article 5. Whether Natural Contingents Are Subject To The Eternal Law

- Article 6. Whether All Human Affairs Are Subject To The Eternal Law

- Question 94. Of The Natural Law

- Article 1. Whether The Natural Law Is A Habit

- Article 2. Whether The Natural Law Contains Several Precepts, Or Only One

- Article 3. Whether All Acts Of Virtue Are Prescribed By The Natural Law

- Article 4. Whether The Natural Law Is The Same In All Men

- Article 5. Whether The Natural Law Can Be Changed

- Article 6. Whether The Law Of Nature Can Be Abolished From The Heart Of Man

- Question 95. Of Human Law

- Article 1. Whether It Was Useful For Laws To Be Framed By Men

- Article 2. Whether Every Human Law Is Derived From The Natural Law

- Article 3. Whether Isidore's Description Of The Quality Of Positive Law Is Appropriate

- Article 4. Whether Isidore's Division Of Human Laws Is Appropriate

- Question 96. Of The Power Of Human Law

- Article 1. Whether Human Law Should Be Framed For The Community Rather Than For The Individual

- Article 2. Whether It Belongs To The Human Law To Repress All Vices

- Article 3. Whether Human Law Prescribes Acts Of All The Virtues

- Article 4. Whether Human Law Binds A Man In Conscience

- Article 5. Whether All Are Subject To The Law

- Article 6. Whether He Who Is Under A Law May Act Beside The Letter Of The Law

- Question 97. Of Change In Laws

- Article 1. Whether Human Law Should Be Changed In Any Way

- Article 2. Whether Human Law Should Always Be Changed, Whenever Something Better Occurs

- Article 3. Whether Custom Can Obtain Force Of Law

- Article 4. Whether The Rulers Of The People Can Dispense From Human Laws

- Article 1. Whether The Old Law Was Good

- Article 2. Whether The Old Law Was From God

- Article 3. Whether The Old Law Was Given Through The Angels

- Article 4. Whether The Old Law Should Have Been Given To The Jews Alone

- Article 5. Whether All Men Were Bound To Observe The Old Law

- Article 6. Whether The Old Law Was Suitably Given At The Time Of Moses

- Question 99. Of The Precepts Of The Old Law

- Article 1. Whether The Old Law Contains Only One Precept

- Article 2. Whether The Old Law Contains Moral Precepts

- Article 3. Whether The Old Law Comprises Ceremonial, Besides Moral, Precepts

- Article 4. Whether, Besides The Moral And Ceremonial Precepts, There Are Also Judicial Precepts

- Article 5. Whether The Old Law Contains Any Others Besides The Moral, Judicial, And Ceremonial Precepts

- Article 6. Whether The Old Law Should Have Induced Men To The Observance Of Its Precepts

- Question 100. Of The Moral Precepts Of The Old Law

- Article 1. Whether All The Moral Precepts Of The Old Law Belong To The Law Of Nature

- Article 2: Whether The Moral Precepts Of The Law Are About All The Acts Of Virtue

- Article 3. Whether All The Moral Precepts Of The Old Law Are Reducible To The Ten Precepts Of The Decalogue

- Article 4. Whether The Precepts Of The Decalogue Are Suitably Distinguished From One Another

- Article 5. Whether The Precepts Of The Decalogue Are Suitably Set Forth

- Article 6. Whether The Ten Precepts Of The Decalogue Are Set In Proper Order

- Article 7. Whether The Precepts Of The Decalogue Are Suitably Formulated

- Article 8. Whether The Precepts Of The Decalogue Are Dispensable

- Article 9. Whether The Mode Of Virtue Falls Under The Precept Of The Law

- Article 10. Whether The Mode Of Charity Falls Under The Precept Of The Divine Law

- Article 11. Whether It Is Right To Distinguish Other Moral Precepts Of The Law Besides The Decalogue

- Article 12. Whether The Moral Precepts Of The Old Law Justified Man

- Question 101. Of The Ceremonial Precepts In Themselves

- Article 1. Whether The Nature Of The Ceremonial Precepts Consists In Their Pertaining To The Worship Of God

- Article 2. Whether The Ceremonial Precepts Are Figurative

- Article 3. Whether There Should Have Been Many Ceremonial Precepts

- Article 4. Whether The Ceremonies Of The Old Law Are Suitably Divided Into Sacrifices

- Question 102. Of The Causes Of The Ceremonial Precepts

- Article 1. Whether There Was Any Cause For The Ceremonial Precepts

- Article 2. Whether The Ceremonial Precepts Have A Literal Cause Or Merely A Figurative Cause

- Article 3. Whether A Suitable Cause Can Be Assigned For The Ceremonies Which Pertained To Sacrifices

- Article 4. Whether Sufficient Reason Can Be Assigned For The Ceremonies Pertaining To Holy Things

- Article 5. Whether There Can Be Any Suitable Cause For The Sacraments Of The Old Law

- Article 6. Whether There Was Any Reasonable Cause For The Ceremonial Observances

- Question 103. Of The Duration Of The Ceremonial Precepts

- Article 1. Whether The Ceremonies Of The Law Were In Existence Before The Law

- Article 2. Whether, At The Time Of The Law, The Ceremonies Of The Old Law Had Any Power Of Justification

- Article 3. Whether The Ceremonies Of The Old Law Ceased At The Coming Of Christ

- Article 4. Whether Since Christ's Passion The Legal Ceremonies Can Be Observed Without Committing Mortal Sin

- Question 104. Of The Judicial Precepts

- Article 1. Whether The Judicial Precepts Were Those Which Directed Man In Relation To His Neighbor

- Article 2. Whether The Judicial Precepts Were Figurative

- Article 3. Whether The Judicial Precepts Of The Old Law Bind For Ever

- Article 4. Whether It Is Possible To Assign A Distinct Division Of The Judicial Precepts

- Question 105. Of The Reason For The Judicial Precepts

- Article 1. Whether The Old Law Enjoined Fitting Precepts Concerning Rulers

- Article 2. Whether The Judicial Precepts Were Suitably Framed As To The Relations Of One Man With Another

- Article 3. Whether The Judicial Precepts Regarding Foreigners Were Framed In A Suitable Manner

- Article 4. Whether The Old Law Set Forth Suitable Precepts About The Members Of The Household

- Question 106. Of The Law Of The Gospel, Called The New Law, Considered In Itself

- Article 1. Whether The New Law Is A Written Law

- Article 2. Whether The New Law Justifies

- Article 3. Whether The New Law Should Have Been Given From The Beginning Of The World

- Article 4. Whether The New Law Will Last Till The End Of The World

- Question 107. Of The New Law As Compared With The Old

- Article 1. Whether The New Law Is Distinct From The Old Law

- Article 2. Whether The New Law Fulfils The Old

- Article 3. Whether The New Law Is Contained In The Old

- Article 4. Whether The New Law Is More Burdensome Than The Old

- Question 108. Of Those Things That Are Contained In The New Law

- Article 1. Whether The New Law Ought To Prescribe Or Prohibit Any External Acts

- Article 2. Whether The New Law Made Sufficient Ordinations About External Acts

- Article 3. Whether The New Law Directed Man Sufficiently As Regards Interior Actions

- Article 4. Whether Certain Definite Counsels Are Fittingly Proposed In The New Law