The Division of Virtues
Can we say that (1) the four moral virtues are in us from the animal part of our nature, (2) the three intellectual virtues are in us from the angelic part of our nature, and (3) the three theological virtues are in us from our nature made deiform? In other words, moral virtues (a) came about by gradual evolution of species and (b) evolve or increase step by step in the individual; intellectual virtues are (a’) “intelligently designed” in the species, though still (b’) evolve in the individual; theological virtues are 100% designed, both (a”) in species and (b”) in the individual.
Posted: December 8th, 2007 under Ethics, Philosophy.