Archive for November 11th, 2008
Aquinas on “Operative Habits”
In discussing whether virtues direct acts, Aquinas considers what seems to be a decisive objection. Virtue is a state of affairs, a condition of the soul, a personality, as it were. In particular, if the virtues are divine in nature, then they make a soul Godlike. But what place, then, is there for human operations [...]
Posted: November 11th, 2008 under Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy.
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Power and Virtue
Aquinas writes that “virtue implies a perfection of power: wherefore the virtue of a thing is fixed by the limit of its power… Now the limit of any power must needs be good: for all evil implies defect; wherefore… every evil is a weakness.” (ST, II-I, 55, 3) I think St. Thomas is guilty of [...]
Posted: November 11th, 2008 under Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy.
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