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: MOTIONS OF CONCUPISCENCE Philippus alumnus septemdecim annorum in quodam collegio catholico se pravos motus passum esse apud con- fessarium confitetur. Hie interrogat utrum iis consenserit, quod ille ncgat. Deinde confessario interroganti num causam corum fortasse posuerit et quam, respondit ali- quando eos oriri quasi spontanee, aliquando ex Icctione librorum, aliquando ex conversatione cum aliis pueris erga quos carnalem fortasse affectum fovet, aliquando ex eo quod hos sit osculatus. Unde quseritur: 1. Quid sit concupiscentia ? 2. Numquis ordo actuum quibus peccatum committi soleat distingui possit ? 3. Num adsit peccatum in motibus primo-primis ct sccundo-primis qui vocantur? 4. Quid ad casum, et quod consilium quoad singula Philippo dandum ? Solution 1. What is concupiscence ? Concupiscence is commonly used in different senses by dogmatic and by moral theologians. Dogmatic theologians use it to signify the inclination to evil and the inordinate motions which we all experience within us, and which, as the Council of Trent teaches, are the effects of original sin.1 In moral theology concupiscence is used in a wider sense to 1 Sess. 5, Decree on Original Sin. MOTIONS OF CONCUPISCENCE 23 signify any movement of passion, or any movement of the sensible appetite toward its own proper good. Thus it is a general term used to signify emotions of love, hatred, joy or gladness, desire, sorrow, and anger. Such emotions are not in themselves either good or evil; their moral quality depends on their object, on whether they are voluntary or not, and on whether they are duly moderated. Thus, regulated love of what is good is praiseworthy, love of what is evil is wrong and blameworthy. 2. Can any order be traced in the acts by which sin is usually committed ?…
