Chapter 18- The Moral Virtues Flashcards
Commutative Justice
Regulates exchanges between persons and between institutions in accordance with a strict respect for their rights, i.e. fulfilling contracts.
Distributive Justice
Regulates what the community owes its citizens in proportion to their contributions and needs.
Fortitude
One of the four cardinal moral virtues which ensures firmness in difficulties and constancy in doing the good.
General Justice
Steadfastly willing what is right with regards to society or the common good.
Insensibility
Purposeful deprivation of physical feeling or sensation.
Intemperance
Lack of moderation or restraint; excess in any kind of action; excessive indulgence of any passion or appetite.
Justice
The cardinal moral virtue which consists in the constant and firm will to give their due to God and to neighbor.
Moderation
(See Temperance)
Morality
The goodness or evil of human acts. The morality of human acts depends on the object (or nature) of the action, the intention or end foreseen, and the circumstances in which it takes place.
Prudence
The virtue which disposes a person to discern the good and choose the correct means to accomplish it. One of the cardinal moral virtues that dispose the Christian to live according to the law of Christ.
Restitution
The return of what has been unjustly taken from another
Temperance
The cardinal moral virtue that moderates the attraction of pleasure and provides balance in the use of created goods. It ensures the mastery of the will over instinct, and keeps natural desires within proper limits.
Virtue
A habitual and firm disposition to do the good.
Cardinal virtues
Four pivotal human virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. The human virtues are stable dispositions of the intellect and will that govern our acts, order our passions, and guide our conduct in accordance with reason and faith.
