An Outline of The Virtues
From https://www.fisheaters.com/moralthinking.html#4
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Intellectual Virtues: good habits that perfect the intellect with regard to Truth.
- Speculative Intellectual Virtues
- Understanding: seeing as true those things that are self evident, e.g. axioms.
- Knowledge: seeing truths determined from rational arguments or first principles.
- Wisdom: using reason to see things in light of ultimate Truths. Supreme intell. virtue.
- Practical Intellectual Virtues
- Prudence: using the intellect to ascertain what should be done (or not).
- Art: using the intellect to make things that are useful or beautiful.
- Speculative Intellectual Virtues
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Moral/Human Virtues: perfect the sensuous appetite and the will.
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Prudence: using the intellect to ascertain what should be done in a particular circumstance.
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Fortitude: getting rid of obstacles that stand in the way of doing the right things.
- Patience: dealing serenely with evil
- Munificence: giving with great generosity
- Magnanimity: willing to do great works deserving of honor
- Perseverence: hanging on and continuing forward in spite of obstacles
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Temperance: dealing with one’s own concupiscible passions.
- Abstinence: regulates desire for food and drink
- Chastity: keeping in check one’s desire for inordinate use of sexual faculties
- Modesty: keeping in check one’s impulse to flaunt oneself externally
- Humility: keeping in check one’s desire to inflate one’s own importance
- Meekness: keeping in check one’s desire for evil to come to those who do wrong
- Clemency: allowing one to be merciful without punishing wrongdoing, when sensible
- Studiousness: regulating the mind to acquire knowledge; excess is ‘curiosity’ (a vice)
- Eutrapelia: allowing one to be of good cheer and to enjoy, in an ordinate manner, pleasures of games, sports, jests, jokes, fun, and play.
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Justice: related to man’s dealings with others, including God.
- Religion: giving God His due
- Piety: giving one’s family, countrymen, etc. their due
- Observance: respecting those in authority who possess the dignity of office
- Epieikeia: honoring the spirit of a law when following the letter leads to an evil
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Theological Virtues: derive from God and no other source.
- Faith: a supernaturally infused virtue that illuminates the intellect with supernatural truths
- Hope: a supernaturally infused virtue that informs the will, helping man to trust in God
- Charity: a supernaturally infused virtue that informs the will, helping man to love God and our neighbor for the sake of God.