The State,Virtue,Sex and Chastity

Copleston , Frederick SJ , A History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome, Vol. I, Part 2. (Garden City, N.Y.: Image Books, 1962), p. 75 & 95.

Copleston , Frederick SJ , A History of Philosophy: Greece and Rome, Vol. I, Part 1, p. 250.

The Basic Works of Aristotle, [BWA] edited and with Introduction by Richard McKeon, “Nichomachean Ethics,” Book I, ch. 1, 1094a, (New York: Random House, 1941), p. 935.

Maritain Jacques , Moral Philosophy, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964), p. 31.

“Politics,” Book VII, ch. 1, 1324a, BWA, p. 1279.

Shorey Paul , What Plato Said, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1933), p. 216.

Jaeger Werner , Aristotle, trans. by Richard Robinson, (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1934), p. 371.

Maritain , p. 34.

“Nichomachean Ethics,” Book II, ch. 5, 1105b-6a, BWA, p. 957.

Maritain , p. 35.

“Nichomachean Ethics,” II, 6, 1107a, BWA, p. 959.

“Nichomachean Ethics,”, II, 4, 1105b, p. 956.

“Nichomachean Ethics,”, III, 10, 1117b-1119b, pp. 980–984.

“Nichomachean Ethics,”, X, 9, 1179b-1180a, pp. 1109–1110.

Romans 1: 26–27.

Acts 17: 16–34.

I Cor. 1: 21 & 30.

II Pt. 1:4.

Aquinatis Sancti Thomas , Summa Theologiae, Vol. 3, II-IIae, q. 151, 4 articles: a. 1: “Utrum castitas est virtus;” a.2: “Utrum sit virtus generalis;” a.3: “Utrum sit virtus distincta ab abstinentia;” a.4: “Quomodo se habeat ad pudicitiam,” (Matriti: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 1956), pp. 922-926.

Aquinatis Sancti Thomas , Summa Theologiae, q. 141, a.3, reply: “… ad virtutem moralem pertinet conservatio boni rationis contra passiones rationi repugnantes.”

Aquinatis Sancti Thomas , Summa Theologiae, q. 151, a.1, ad: “Pertinet enim ad castitatem ut secundum judicium rationis et electionem voluntatis aliquis moderate utatur corporalibus membris.”

Pieper Josef , Fortitude and Temperance, trans. by Coogan Daniel F. , (New York: Pantheon Books, 1954), P. 57.

For a clear and brief treatment see May William E. , An Introduction to Moral Theology, (Huntington, Ind.: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, 1991), pp. 37–54.

Lawlor Ronald ; Boyle Joseph ,, Catholic Sexual Ethics, (Huntington, Ind.: Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., 1985), pp. 31–56.

Lawlor Ronald ; Boyle Joseph ,, Catholic Sexual Ethics, q, 153, a.3, reply: “Usus autem venereorum, sicut dictum est, est valde necessarius ad bonum commune, quod est conservatio humani generis.”

Aquinas St. Thomas , Temperance: 2a2ae, 141-154, Latin text, English translation, Introduction, Notes, Appendices and Glossary by Thomas Gilby, O.P., (Cambridge: Blackfriars, 1968), note a, p. 157.

See note 12 above; II-IIae, q. 155, a.4, reply; Pieper, pp. 66–70.

Kristol Irving , “AIDS and False Innocence,” The Wall Street Journal, (Thursday, August 6, 1992), A 12. As to the safety of condoms, see the criticism of Janet Larkin in The Democrat and Chronicle. (Rochester, N.Y., Friday, August 26, 1992), 9A, where among other material facts she points out that “the AIDS virus is 1/25th the width of a sperm … that the smallest detectable hole in a condom is 1 micron and the AIDS virus is one-tenth the size of that hole … that among married couples using condoms when one spouse was HIV-positive, 17 percent of the uninfected spouses became infected within a year and a half … that when 800 sexologists were asked at a recent conference how many would trust a thin, rubber sheath for protection during sex with a person who has HIV, not one raised a hand.”