This virtue considers what is due to each, and helps us to live well with others in community. Rather, justice concerns any relationship between persons. ![]() ![]() The virtue of justice is not simply reserved for interpersonal relationships that are governmentally determined. This virtue does indeed depend on a kind of knowledge and the avoidance of willful ignorance. Specifically, this virtue enables man to see things rightly and accordingly to act rightly. Prudence, like all other virtues, is a stable disposition to do some sort of activity well. Temperance provides the perfect occasion as an introduction to these Cardinal Virtues as it deals specifically with one’s approach to pleasure. In discussing virtue, it is necessary to return to what the tradition has recognized as the “hinge” virtues upon which all other virtues depend: temperance, prudence, justice, and fortitude. Temperance and the Passionate Moral Life.On the one hand, how is it that Christianity drastically shapes the moral life, and on the other hand, man can be moral without Christianity? Do all people have equal access to the natural law? What role does grace have in regard to virtue? Virtue is not found in a single good act, but rather in stable dispositions that incline us toward the good. What is a virtue and why is it important to have them? To say that a man is virtuous is to say something of his character. What does this communion with God look like? What does it mean to possess God? What kinds of actions lead to the possession of the “greatest good”? But Christian happiness surpasses such natural pagan theories in its belief that man can have friendship with God. ![]() Do the Sacred Scriptures affirm such a “morality of happiness”?īoth the ancient Greek philosophers and the Catholic tradition affirm that friendship is at the core of human happiness. Why be moral? Why choose to live by a set of rules? Does morality have anything to do with my happiness? For the ancient Greek Philosophers, to live a moral life is to live a happy life.
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