TPPM (9): Summa Theologica and "Sloth"

[Tim Strzechowski]

"In his classical discussion of the subject in the "Summa Theologica," Aquinas termed Sloth, or acedia, one of the seven capital sins."

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

http://www.ccel.org/a/aquinas/summa/home.html

http://www.ccel.org/a/aquinas/summa/


On Sloth (Aquinas):

http://www.newadvent.org/summa/303501.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/summa/303502.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/summa/303503.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/summa/303504.htm


On "acedia":

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/acedia

 .... uh, for anyone in need of this information:
http://www.babynamenetwork.com/detail.cfm?name=Acedia&gender=female


 . . . and for the Latin scholars on the list:
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/aquinas.p1.html
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