The Practice of Virtue
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Why Does Music Matter? A Thomistic Psychological Perspective on Music and Well-Being Why Does Music Matter? And Why Does the...
The Virtue of Reason What Is Reason (Ratio)? Reason (ratio) is the habit of mind by which we think rightly...
The Virtue of Shrewdness If docility, as we saw in the last article, teaches us to listen well, shrewdness teaches...
The Virtue of Docility In an age where self-reliance is often praised and individualism is championed, the virtue of docility...
The Virtue of Understanding As we explored in our last post, Saint Thomas Aquinas teaches that the virtue of prudence...
The Virtue of Memory Saint Thomas Aquinas identifies eight integral parts—or subvirtues—of the cardinal virtue of prudence. These integral parts...
The Virtue of Prudence Prudence: The Foundation of the Moral Life Before we begin our exploration of the moral virtues...
What Is Virtue And Why Does It Matter? The word virtue is often thrown around as a vague commendation of...
“Virtue is that which makes its possessor good, and his work good likewise.”
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologiae I-II, q. 56, a. 3