Aquinas - Treatise on the Virtues Articles 3 & 5 Flashcards
List the Intellectual Virtues
Understanding Wisdom Science Art Prudence
Which are the virtues of speculative intellect?
understanding, wisdom and science
intellectus - deals with basic principles
understanding
sapientia - deals with ultimate causes and reasons
wisdom
scientia - deals with the knowledge of particular spheres of being
science
What is considered practical intellect?
art and prudence
How would Aquinas define reason?
the perfecting of reason, right reasoning in choice of appropriate means to an end
List the moral virtues
Justice
Temperance
Fortitude
Prudence
How is prudence both an intellectual and moral virtue?
while being an intellectual virtue in its subject, its matter is concerned with operations
The essence of prudence is the effective _________ between _________ principle and particular situations to be acted upon
linkage, universal
TRUE OR FALSE: Fortitude is attributed to the lustful appetite
FALSE: Fortitude is attributed to being firm in adversity, concerning pleasures is temperance
Appetite is tending to what is _________; the will
good
