Intro -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Question I, On Evil -- Articles -- 1. Is Evil an Entity? -- 2. Is There Evil in Good? -- 3. Is Good the Cause of Evil? -- 4. Is Evil Suitably Divided into the Evil of Moral Wrong and the Evil of Punishment? -- 5. Does Punishment or Moral Wrong Have More of the Nature of Evil ? -- Question II: On Sins -- Articles -- 1. Is an Act Involved in Every Sin? -- 2. Does Sin Consist Solely of the Will's Act? -- 3. Does Sin Consist Chiefly of Acts of the Will? -- 4. Is Every Act Morally Indifferent? -- 5. Are Some Acts Morally Indifferent? -- 6. Do Circumstances Specify Sins or Alter the Species of Sin by Transferring Them into Different Kinds of Sin? -- 7. Do Circumstances Make Sins More Serious without Imputing Species to Sins? -- 8. Do Circumstances Make Sins Infinitely More Serious, Namely, so as to Make Venial Sins Mortal? -- 9. Are All Sins Equal? -- 10. Are Sins More Serious Because They Are Contrary to a Greater Good? -- 11. Does Sin Diminish Natural Good? -- 12. Can Sin Destroy the Whole Natural Good? -- Question III: On the Causes of Sin -- Articles -- 1. Does God Cause Sin? -- 2. Do Acts of Sin Come from God? -- 3. Does the Devil Cause Sin? -- 4. Can the Devil by Interior Persuasion Induce Human Beings to Sin? -- 5. Does the Devil Suggest Every Sin? -- 6. Regarding Human Sinners, Can Ignorance Cause Sin? -- 7. Is Ignorance a Sin? -- 8. Does Ignorance Excuse or Diminish Sin? -- 9. Can a Person Having Knowledge Sin out of Weakness? -- 10. Do We Impute Sins out of Weakness to Human Beings as Mortal Sins? -- 11. Does Weakness Make Sin Less or More Serious? -- 12. Can a Person Sin out of Malice, That is, Deliberate Malice? -- 13. Does the Sinner out of Malice Sin More Seriously than the Sinner out of Weakness?.

14. Is Every Sin Done out of Malice a Sin against the Holy Spirit? -- 15. Can Sins against the Holy Spirit Be Forgiven? -- Question IV: On Original Sin -- Articles -- 1. Is a Sin Contracted by Physical Descent? -- 2. What Is Original Sin? -- 3. Is Flesh or the Soul the Subject in Which Original Sin Inheres? -- 4. Does Original Sin Inhere in the Powers of the Soul Prior to Being in the Soul's Essence? -- 5. Does Original Sin Inhere in the Will Prior to Being in Other Powers? -- 6. Is Original Sin Transmitted by Adam to All Descendants from His Seed? -- 7. Do Those Begotten Only from Adam's Matter Contract Original Sin? -- 8. Are the Sins of Immediate Parents Transmitted by Physical Descent to Their Posterity? -- Question V: On the Punishment of Original Sin -- Articles -- 1. Is Privation of the Vision of God a Fitting Punishment for Original Sin? -- 2. Does Original Sin Deserve Punishment of the Senses? -- 3. Do Those Who Die with Only Original Sin Suffer the Torment of Internal Anguish? -- 4. Are Death and Other Ills of This Life Punishment of Original Sin? -- 5. Are Death and Like Ills Natural to Human Beings? -- Question VI: On Human Choice -- Article -- 1. Do Human Beings Have Free Choice in Their Acts, or Do They Choose Necessarily? -- Question VII: On Venial Sin -- Articles -- 1. Do We Properly Contradistinguish Venial Sin from Mortal Sin? -- 2. Does Venial Sin Diminish Charity? -- 3. Can Venial Sin Become Mortal? -- 4. Do Circumstances Make Venial Sins Mortal? -- 5. Can Venial Sin Belong to Higher Reason? -- 6. Can Venial Sin Belong to Sense Appetites? -- 7. Could Adam in the Condition of Innocence Have Sinned Venially? -- 8. Are the First Movements of the Sense Appetites of Unbelievers Venial Sins? -- 9. Can a Good or Bad Angel Sin Venially? -- 10. Is Venial Sin by One without Charity Punished by Eternal Punishment?.

11. Are Any Venial Sins Remitted in Purgatory after This Life Ends? -- 12. Does Sprinkling Holy Water, Anointing the Body, and the Like Remit Venial Sins in This Life? -- Question VIII: On the Capital Sins -- Articles -- 1. How Many Capital Sins Are There, and Which Sins Are? -- 2. Is Pride a Special Kind of Sin? -- 3. Does Pride Belong to Irascible Power? -- 4. Does Gregory Appropriately Assign Four Species of Pride? -- Question IX: On VainGlory -- Articles -- 1. Is Vainglory a Sin? -- 2. Is Vainglory a Mortal Sin? -- 3. Do We Appropriately Assign Disobedience, Boasting, Hypocrisy, Contention, Obstinacy, Discord, and Audacity for Novelties as the Daughters of Vainglory? -- Question X: On Envy -- Articles -- 1. Is Envy a Sin? -- 2. Is Envy a Mortal Sin? -- 3. Is Envy a Capital Sin? -- Question XI: On Spiritual Apathy -- Articles -- 1. Is Spiritual Apathy a Sin? -- 2. Is Spiritual Apathy a Special Kind of Sin? -- 3. Is Spiritual Apathy a Mortal Sin? -- 4. Is Spiritual Apathy a Capital Sin? -- Question XII: On Anger -- Articles -- 1. Is All Anger Sin, or Is Some Anger Good? -- 2. Can Anger Be a Sin? -- 3. Is Anger a Mortal Sin? -- 4. Is Anger a Less Serious Sin Than Hate and Envy and the Like? -- 5. Is Anger a Capital Sin? -- Question XIII: On Avarice -- Articles -- 1. Is Avarice a Special Kind of Sin? -- 2. Is Avarice a Mortal Sin? -- 3. Is Avarice a Capital Sin? -- 4. Is Lending at Interest a Mortal Sin? -- Question XIV: On Gluttony -- Articles -- 1. Is Gluttony Always a Sin? -- 2. Is Gluttony a Mortal Sin? -- 3. Does Gregory Appropriately List the Species of Gluttony? -- 4. Is Gluttony a Capital Sin? -- Question XV: On Sexual Lust -- Articles -- 1. Is Every Act of Sexual Lust a Sin? -- 2. Is Every Act of Sexual Lust a Mortal Sin?.

3. Are Fornication, Adultery, Incest, Seduction of a Virgin, Rape, and Sins Contrary to Nature the Species of Sexual Lust? -- 4. Is Sexual Lust a Capital Sin? -- Question XVI: On Devils -- Articles -- 1. Do Devils Have Bodies Joined to Them by Nature? -- 2. Are Devils Evil by Their Nature or Their Will? -- 3. Did the Devil in Sinning Desire Equality with God? -- 4. Did the Devil Sin, or Could He Have Sinned, at the First Moment of His Creation? -- 5. Can Devils' Free Choice Return to Good after Their Sin? -- 6. Is a Devil's Intellect So Darkened after Sin That It Can Err or Be Deceived? -- 7. Do Devils Know Future Things? -- 8. Do Devils Know Our Interior Thoughts? -- 9. Can Devils Alter Material Substances by Changing the Substances' Forms? -- 10. Can Devils Cause the Locomotion of Material Substances? -- 11. Can Devils Affect the Soul's Cognitive Powers Regarding the Internal or External Senses? -- 12. Can Devils Affect Human Beings' Intellect? -- Glossary of Terms -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- I -- L -- M -- P -- S -- Glossary of Authors and Works Cited -- A -- B -- C -- D -- G -- H -- J -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Comparable Passages in Other Works of Aquinas -- Non-Biblical Texts Cited -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- O -- P -- S -- T -- V.

The De Malo represents some of Aquinas' most mature thinking on goodness, badness, and human agency. In it he examines the full range of questions associated with evil: its origin, its nature, its relation to good, and its compatibility with the existence of an omnipotent, benevolent God. This edition offers Richard Regan's new, clear readable English translation, based on the Leonine Commission's authoritative edition of the Latin text. Brian Davies has provided an extensive introduction and notes. (Please note: this edition does not include the Latin text).

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