Elements of Moral Theology; Based on the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1892. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. TEMPERANCE: ITS ALLIED VIRTUES AND THEIR OPPOSITE VICES. 1. Temperance. Is temperance a virtue? Human virtue is that which inclines us to what is according to reason. Now temperance means a rational government of certain desires and pleasures; it is plainly, therefore, a virtue. (1) It might be objected, indeed, that no virtue is opposed to natural inclination, because there is in man a natural aptitude for virtue, while temperance holds one back from natural pleasures. But nature inclines to that which is suitable for each creature; and man, accordingly, desires that gratification which is suitable to his nature. But man as man is rational, and consequently the pleasures which are suited to his nature are those which are according to reason. Temperance does not withhold him from these, and so it does not oppose the inclination of human nature, but rather harmonizes with it. What it does oppose is the inclination of bestial nature which is not subject to reason. (2) Again, it has been said that all the virtues are connected with one another; but some seem to be temperate who lack other virtues; they may be miserly, or cowardly, etc. But the perfect virtue of temperance cannot exist without prudence, the common ground of all the moral virtues, which every vicious man lacks. Those, then, who have not the other virtues, but are slaves to their opposite vices, have not the virtue of temperance, even if they lead temperate lives out of natural disposition or acquired habit. Such imperfect virtue lacks that rational ground which constitutes the perfect virtue. (3) To every virtue corresponds some spiritual gift; what gift corresponds to temperance, if it be a virtue? I answer, godly fear, by which one is restrained from sinful carnal pleasures. "My...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150343612
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 194
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150343613
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 354 gr


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