Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. IV, 1950 Moral theology Commandments and precepts

Cruelty

CRUDELTA

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CRUELTY. - « La crudeltà è l'atrocità dell'animo nell'infliggere le pene » (Seneca, De Clem., 4). Crudele da crudus è colui che è di costumi feroci. S. Tommaso pure, fa derivare il termine c. da cruditas, crudezza, e osserva che, come i cibi crudi hanno un sapore sgradito e aspro, così la c. importa asprezza d'animo. Judged externally, in comparison with the patient, cruelty is a lack of justice insofar as it exceeds in inflicting penalties, which are due in themselves, but not to that degree. Considered instead as a disposition of mind in the one who commits it, it is an act against clemency, a virtue annexed to temperance and characterized by a gentleness of soul that tends to mitigate penalties.

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BIBL.: S. Tommaso, Sum. Theol., 2°-3°, q. 159, an. 1-2.

Luigi Morstabilini

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), col. 1026.

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Morstabilini, Luigi. “Crudelta.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, col. 1026. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/crudelta.

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Morstabilini, Luigi. “Crudelta.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 1026. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/crudelta.

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  author    = {Morstabilini, Luigi},
  title     = {Crudelta},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IV},
  pages     = {1026},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/crudelta}
}

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