Chapter 24. St. Thomas, Lying, and Venial Sin

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Previous Publication ix
4. Abbreviations xv
5. Introduction 1
6. Universal Considerations
7. Chapter 1. Wisdom and Human Life: The Natural and the Supernatural 7
8. Chapter 2. Wisdom as Foundational Ethical Theory in St. Thomas Aquinas 32
9. Chapter 3. St. Thomas, Metaphysics, and Human Dignity 58
10. Chapter 4. Truth and Happiness 68
11. Chapter 5. Antimodern, Ultramodern, Postmodern: A Plea for the Perennial 85
12. Chapter 6. Is Thomas Aquinas a Spiritual Hedonist? 99
13. Chapter 7. Is Liberty the Criterion in Morals? 117
14. The Will and Its Act
15. Chapter 8. The Real Distinction between Intellect and Will 125
16. Chapter 9. St. Thomas, James Keenan, and the Will 151
17. Chapter 10. St. Thomas and the Causes of Free Choice 175
18. Chapter 11. St. Thomas and the First Cause of Moral Evil 186
19. Natural Law
20. Chapter 12. St. Thomas, Our Natural Lights, and the Moral Order 199
21. Chapter 13. Jacques Maritain and the Philosophy of Cooperation 213
22. Chapter 14. Natural Law and the First Act of Freedom: Maritain Revisited 221
23. Chapter 15. Jean Porter on Natural Law: Thomistic Notes 242
24. Legal Justice
25. Chapter 16. St. Thomas, the Common Good, and the Love of Persons 271
26. Chapter 17. St. Thomas, John Finnis, and the Political Good 279
27. Chapter 18. Thomas Aquinas, Gerard Bradley, and the Death Penalty 312
28. Chapter 19. Death in the Setting of Divine Wisdom: The Doctrine of St. Thomas Aquinas 326
29. Chapter 20. Suicide as a Belligerent Tactic: Thomistic Reflections 336
30. Various Virtues
31. Chapter 21. Jacques Maritain, St. Thomas, and the Philosophy of Religion 349
32. Chapter 22. Philosophy and Spirituality: Cultivating a Virtue 358
33. Chapter 23. St. Thomas and the Ontology of Prayer 365
34. Chapter 24. St. Thomas, Lying, and Venial Sin 374
35. Chapter 25. Communion with the Tradition: For the Believer Who Is a Philosopher 387
36. Methodological Postscript
37. Chapter 26. ‘‘Obiectum’’: Notes on the Invention of a Word 403
38. Chapter 27. St. Thomas and Moral Taxonomy 444
39. Notes 479
40. Bibliography 653
41. Index 669