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Latin word for Virtue

defines virtue as “ordo amoris”, the ordinate condition of the affections in which every

object is accorded that kind of degree of love which is appropriate to it

• St. Augustine of Hippo

• St. Thomas Aquinas

• EAC Manual

• Peter Kreeft

virtue a.k.a. _____

• Excellence

• Moral Excellence

• Vertu

• Moral Virtue

An object can’t do so

because they require a

_______ to improve.

• 'love'

• 'virtue'

• 'human'

• ‘doer’

Virtue outside of her/himself indicates that virtue has an external source greater

than

• contingent being

• self-transcendence

• equal

• the human person

Virtue is the human person’s _________, for virtue is both in and outside of

her/himself.

• Ancient greek

• vertu

• self-transcendence

• “ordo amoris”

vertu (latin word) which means

• “moral life and conduct; a particular moral

  excellence or perfection”

• “thinking and doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong”

is associated w/ morality, ethics, goodness, character, behavior, and conduct

• Virtue

• Wisdom

• Dalai Lama

• Mohandas ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi

defines virtue as:

an act consonant with reason

• St. Augustine of Hippo

• St. Thomas Aquinas

• EAC Manual

• Peter Kreeft

defines virtue as the wisdom to choose to do only the right thing

• St. Augustine of Hippo

• St. Thomas Aquinas

• EAC Manual

• Peter Kreeft