Download or read book The Morality of the Exterior Act written by F. Chad Ripperger and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the doctoral dissertation of Fr. Ripperger which covers the distinction in the writings of St. Thomas between object of the moral act, its natural species and its moral species. It covers how, in the mind in St. Thomas, one derives the moral content of the moral species and how one goes from the natural species of the moral act to the moral species which one chooses.