Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae)
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~730,000 words · 3,480 passages
Cite this work
- APAThomas Aquinas. (n.d.). Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/thomas-aquinas/summa-theologica-part-ii-ii-secunda-secundae
- MLAThomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae). Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/thomas-aquinas/summa-theologica-part-ii-ii-secunda-secundae.
- ChicagoThomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae). Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/thomas-aquinas/summa-theologica-part-ii-ii-secunda-secundae.
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What it is about
Applied morals: virtue by virtue and sin by sin, from faith and hope through to justice, war and property.
Context and history
It is the longest part and the most read outside theology, because it comes down to cases: whether one may ever lie, when a war is just, what a seller owes a buyer, whether lending at interest is licit. The structure follows the three theological and four cardinal virtues, hanging each concrete question from the virtue it belongs to.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
brackets. For example, in Part I, Question 45, Article 2, the first sentence in the Benziger Brothers edition begins: "Not only is it impossible that anything should be created by God...." By reference to the Latin, "non solum _non_ est impossibile a Deo aliquid creari" (emphasis added), this has been corrected to "Not only is it [not] impossible that anything should be created by God...." This electronic edition also differs from the Benziger Brothers edition in the following details (as well as the obvious lack of the original page numbers and headers): * The repetitive expression "We proceed thus to the [next] Article" does not appear directly below the title of each article. * Italics are represented by underscores at the beginning and end, _like this._ Quotations and other "quotable" matter, however, are ordinarily set off by quotation marks with no underscores in this edition, in accordance with common English usage, even where they were set in italics with no quotation marks in the Benziger Brothers edition. Titles of books are set off by underscores when they appear in the text with no parentheses, but not when the books are cited in parentheses. * Bible chapters and verses are cited with arabic numerals separated by colons, like this: "Dan. 7:10"--not like this: "Dan. vii. 10." Small roman numerals have been retained where they appear in citations to books other than the Bible. * Any matter that appeared in a footnote in the Benziger Brothers edition is presented in brackets at the point in the text where the footnote mark appeared. * Greek words are presented in Roman transliteration. * Paragraphs are not indented and are separated by blank lines. * Numbered topics, set forth at the beginning of each question and at certain other places, are ordinarily presented on a separate line for each topic. * Titles of questions are in all caps.…