Theologia moralis (vol. 1)

✍ Scribed by Liguori, St. Alfonso Maria de', 1696-1787 & Zaccaria, Francescantonio, 1714-1795

• Publisher: H. Marietti
• Year: 1891
• Tongue: Latin
• Leaves: 1052
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

DjVu p. 537 (III. 394) is discusses " quando liceat procurare abortum. "
DjVu p. 556: " An liceat aspicere partes honestas personæ pulchræ sexus diversi." (The closest I've seen him treat the relation between morality and beauty/ pulchritudine.)

"it is per se licit, because it is licit to look at anything beautiful to the sight created by God; thus, there is no fault per se , excepting curiosity, to look at a beautiful woman. … But in practice this is rarely excused from venial sin, except it be done from a civilian duty [ urbanitate debita ] or other just cause." He goes on to speak about how if one's lingeringly looking at beautiful women leads to the "danger of a 'dirty mind' or morose delectation" (" periculum turpis concupiscentiæ vel morosæ delectationis "), then it is a sin. All of this is commonsense. He continues: "But to look at the less honest (but not sexual [ turpes ]) parts of a woman—namely, the chest, arms, legs, excepting the danger of falling [I think he means, excepting a proximate occasion of sin.]—and in a non-lingeringly way, is not of itself a mortal sin." For some people "with a strong proclivity to the venereal, such looking is easily a mortal sin."
on nude artwork:
"To look at obscene pictures, even out of curiosity, is not mortal … if turpitudinous delectation and its danger are absent. But in practice, the morose looking at the shameful parts (pudenda) of a woman depicted [in art] is difficultly excused from mortal [sin], because difficultly can one be liberated here from turpitudinous delectation or from its probable danger …. except he look for a short duration and from a long distance."
DjVu p. 461: “The reason for the subjection is this: it is most expedient for the peace of the family, for fostering mutual love, that the wife desire to be totally dependent upon her husband.” Et ratio (subjectionis) est: quia expedit valde ad pacem familiæ, ad mutuum amorem fovendum, quod uxor voluntatem totaliter a viro dependentem habeat…
DjVu pp. 349-50 on St. Alphonsus's definition of material vs. formal cooperation