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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: have its own proper solicitude, which will be sufficient to afflict the soul. And this is the meaning of the addition: Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof; that is, the affliction of solicitude which it brings. i. The ant has a solicitude suitable to the season; and this is what is proposed to us for imitation.1 QUESTION LVII. OF RIGHT.2 Article I.?Is right the object of justice ? R. The proper office of justice in its place among virtues is to direct a man in his dealings with another. For justice involves a certain equality, as the name itself shows; for the things that are equalized are said to be adjusted; and equality is a relation of one thing with another. Other virtues perfect a man only in what is his own private concern. They regard the agent, and the agent exclusively, in the rectitude of conduct which they determine and aim at as their object; but justice fixes its rectitude of conduct in reference to some one else?even passing over the agent. That is called just in our doings, which is in some sort of equality corresponding to 1 Prov. vi. 6?8. 2 In Latin, as in French, the same word stands for both law and right. An English translator must give the meaning which seems to him predominant each time the word occurs. (Trl.) something else, as in the instance of wages corresponding to work done. So then that is just, which is the term of a just action, even irrespectively of the disposition of the agent. But in other virtues right action always supposes a certain disposition of the agent.1 And therefore what is called just, that is, right, is determined to be the proper object of justice above other virtues. 3. Because justice involves equality, and we cannot make an equivalent return to God, hence we cannot render to God what is j...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217438858 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217438857 |
| Weight | 1.17 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 In |
| List Price | $20.12 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 362 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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