Summa Theologica, Ia IIae q. 94 a. 5.
(Aquinas, Thomas, Summa Theologica, trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, London: R. & T. Washbourne, Ltd., 1915, pt. 2, 1st pt., q. 90-114, pp. 49-51.)
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Monday, 29 July 2013
Natural Law and Possession According to the Catholic Church: the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas (2)
In this sense, the possession of all things in common and universal freedom are said to be of the natural law, because, to wit, the distinction of possessions and slavery were not brought in by nature, but devised by human reason for the benefit of human life.
Natural Law and Theft According to the Catholic Church: the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas
In case of need all things are common property, so that there would seem to be no sin in taking another's property, for need has made it common.
... Hence whatever certain people have in superabundance is due, by natural law, to the purpose of succoring the poor. ... ...it is lawful for a man to succor his own need by means of another's property, by taking it either openly or secretly; nor is this properly speaking theft or robbery.
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It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.
In a case of a like need a man may also take secretly another's property in order to succor his neighbor in need.
... Hence whatever certain people have in superabundance is due, by natural law, to the purpose of succoring the poor. ... ...it is lawful for a man to succor his own need by means of another's property, by taking it either openly or secretly; nor is this properly speaking theft or robbery.
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It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.
In a case of a like need a man may also take secretly another's property in order to succor his neighbor in need.
Summa Theologica, IIa IIae q. 66 a. 7.
(Aquinas, Thomas, Summa Theologica, trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, New York: Benziger Brothers, 1918, pt. 2, 2nd pt., q. 47-79, pp. 232,233.)
Natural Law and Possession According to the Catholic Church: the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas
Now according to the natural law all things are common property ...
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Community of goods is ascribed to the natural law, not that the natural law dictates that all things should be possessed in common, and that nothing should be possessed as one’s own: but because the division of possessions is not according to the natural law, but rather arose from human agreement which belongs to positive law, as stated above (Q. LVII, AA. 2, 3). Hence the ownership of possessions is not contrary to the natural law, but an addition thereto devised by human reason.
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Community of goods is ascribed to the natural law, not that the natural law dictates that all things should be possessed in common, and that nothing should be possessed as one’s own: but because the division of possessions is not according to the natural law, but rather arose from human agreement which belongs to positive law, as stated above (Q. LVII, AA. 2, 3). Hence the ownership of possessions is not contrary to the natural law, but an addition thereto devised by human reason.
Summa Theologica, IIa IIae q. 66 a. 2.
(Aquinas, Thomas, Summa Theologica, trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, New York: Benziger Brothers, 1918, pt. 2, 2nd pt., q. 47-79, pp. 223-225.)
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