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Translator's Note | |
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Abbreviations | |
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Introduction | |
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On Evil | |
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Is Evil an Entity? | |
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Is There Evil in Good? | |
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Is Good the Cause of Evil? | |
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Is Evil Suitably Divided into the Evil of Moral Wrong and the Evil of Punishment? | |
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Does Punishment or Moral Wrong Have More of the Nature of Evil? | |
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On Sins | |
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Is an Act Involved in Every Sin? | |
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Does Sin Consist Solely of the Will's Act? | |
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Does Sin Consist Chiefly of Acts of the Will? | |
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Is Every Act Morally Indifferent? | |
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Are Some Acts Morally Indifferent? | |
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Do Circumstances Specify Sins or Alter the Species of Sin by Transferring Them into Different Kinds of Sin? | |
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Do Circumstances Make Sins More Serious without Imputing Species to Sins? | |
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Do Circumstances Make Sins Infinitely More Serious, Namely, so as to Make Venial Sins Mortal? | |
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Are All Sins Equal? | |
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Are Sins More Serious Because They Are Contrary to a Greater Good? | |
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Does Sin Diminish Natural Good? | |
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Can Sin Destroy the Whole Natural Good? | |
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On the Causes of Sin | |
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Does God Cause Sin? | |
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Do Acts of Sin Come from God? | |
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Does the Devil Cause Sin? | |
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Can the Devil by Interior Persuasion Induce Human Beings to Sin? | |
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Does the Devil Suggest Every Sin? | |
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Regarding Human Sinners, Can Ignorance Cause Sin? | |
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Is Ignorance a Sin? | |
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Does Ignorance Excuse or Diminish Sin? | |
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Can a Person Having Knowledge Sin out of Weakness? | |
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Do We Impute Sins out of Weakness to Human Beings as Mortal Sins? | |
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Does Weakness Make Sin Less or More Serious? | |
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Can a Person Sin out of Malice, That is, Deliberate Malice? | |
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Does the Sinner out of Malice Sin More Seriously than the Sinner out of Weakness? | |
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Is Every Sin Done out of Malice a Sin against the Holy Spirit? | |
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Can Sins against the Holy Spirit Be Forgiven? | |
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On Original Sin | |
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Is a Sin Contracted by Physical Descent? | |
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What Is Original Sin? | |
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Is Flesh or the Soul the Subject in Which Original Sin Inheres? | |
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Does Original Sin Inhere in the Powers of the Soul Prior to Being in the Soul's Essence? | |
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Does Original Sin Inhere in the Will Prior to Being in Other Powers? | |
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Is Original Sin Transmitted by Adam to All Descendants from His Seed? | |
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Do Those Begotten Only from Adam's Matter Contract Original Sin? | |
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Are the Sins of Immediate Parents Transmitted by Physical Descent to Their Posterity? | |
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On the Punishment of Original Sin | |
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Is Privation of the Vision of God a Fitting Punishment for Original Sin? | |
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Does Original Sin Deserve Punishment of the Senses? | |
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Do Those Who Die with Only Original Sin Suffer the Torment of Internal Anguish? | |
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Are Death and Other Ills of This Life Punishment of Original Sin? | |
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Are Death and Like Ills Natural to Human Beings? | |
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On Human Choice | |
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Do Human Beings Have Free Choice in Their Acts, or Do They Choose Necessarily? | |
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On Venial Sin | |
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Do We Properly Contradistinguish Venial Sin from Mortal Sin? | |
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Does Venial Sin Diminish Charity? | |
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Can Venial Sin Become Mortal? | |
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Do Circumstances Make Venial Sins Mortal? | |
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Can Venial Sin Belong to Higher Reason? | |
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Can Venial Sin Belong to Sense Appetites? | |
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Could Adam in the Condition of Innocence Have Sinned Venially? | |
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Are the First Movements of the Sense Appetites of Unbelievers Venial Sins? | |
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Can a Good or Bad Angel Sin Venially? | |
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Is Venial Sin by One without Charity Punished by Eternal Punishment? | |
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Are Any Venial Sins Remitted in Purgatory after This Life Ends? | |
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Does Sprinkling Holy Water, Anointing the Body, and the Like Remit Venial Sins in This Life? | |
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On the Capital Sins | |
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How Many Capital Sins Are There, and Which Sins Are? | |
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Is Pride a Special Kind of Sin? | |
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Does Pride Belong to Irascible Power? | |
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Does Gregory Appropriately Assign Four Species of Pride? | |
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On VainGlory | |
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Is Vainglory a Sin? | |
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Is Vainglory a Mortal Sin? | |
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Do We Appropriately Assign Disobedience, Boasting, Hypocrisy, Contention, Obstinacy, Discord, and Audacity for Novelties as the Daughters of Vainglory? | |
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On Envy | |
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Is Envy a Sin? | |
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Is Envy a Mortal Sin? | |
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Is Envy a Capital Sin? | |
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On Spiritual Apathy | |
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Is Spiritual Apathy a Sin? | |
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Is Spiritual Apathy a Special Kind of Sin? | |
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Is Spiritual Apathy a Mortal Sin? | |
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Is Spiritual Apathy a Capital Sin? | |
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On Anger | |
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Is All Anger Sin, or Is Some Anger Good? | |
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Can Anger Be a Sin? | |
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Is Anger a Mortal Sin? | |
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Is Anger a Less Serious Sin Than Hate and Envy and the Like? | |
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Is Anger a Capital Sin? | |
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On Avarice | |
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Is Avarice a Special Kind of Sin? | |
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Is Avarice a Mortal Sin? | |
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Is Avarice a Capital Sin? | |
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Is Lending at Interest a Mortal Sin? | |
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On Gluttony | |
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Is Gluttony Always a Sin? | |
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Is Gluttony a Mortal Sin? | |
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Does Gregory Appropriately List the Species of Gluttony? | |
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Is Gluttony a Capital Sin? | |
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On Sexual Lust | |
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Is Every Act of Sexual Lust a Sin? | |
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Is Every Act of Sexual Lust a Mortal Sin? | |
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Are Fornication, Adultery, Incest, Seduction of a Virgin, Rape, and Sins Contrary to Nature the Species of Sexual Lust? | |
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Is Sexual Lust a Capital Sin? | |
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On Devils | |
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Do Devils Have Bodies Joined to Them by Nature? | |
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Are Devils Evil by Their Nature or Their Will? | |
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Did the Devil in Sinning Desire Equality with God? | |
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Did the Devil Sin, or Could He Have Sinned, at the First Moment of His Creation? | |
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Can Devils' Free Choice Return to Good after Their Sin? | |
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Is a Devil's Intellect So Darkened after Sin That It Can Err or Be Deceived? | |
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Do Devils Know Future Things? | |
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Do Devils Know Our Interior Thoughts? | |
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Can Devils Alter Material Substances by Changing the Substances' Forms? | |
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Can Devils Cause the Locomotion of Material Substances? | |
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Can Devils Affect the Soul's Cognitive Powers Regarding the Internal or External Senses? | |
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Can Devils Affect Human Beings' Intellect? | |
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Glossary of Terms | |
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Glossary of Authors and Works Cited | |
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Comparable Passages in Other Works of Aquinas | |
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Non-Biblical Texts Cited | |
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Select Bibliography | |
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Index | |