Christopher Kaczor and Thomas Sherman, SJ: Thomas Aquinas on the Cardinal Virtues: A Summa of the Summa on Justice, Courage, Temperance, and Practical Wisdom

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-172
Author(s):  
Gaston Giacinti ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Cardinal Virtues

scholarly journals Cardinal Virtues in Sport: Prudentia

2015 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Pisk Jernej
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Moral Decision Making ◽  
Cardinal Virtues ◽  
Western Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Intellectual Capacity ◽  
Past Experiences

Abstract Cardinal virtues present one of the oldest anthropological theories and ethical systems in the western philosophical tradition. Among other great ancient philosophers, Plato talked about four main virtues: prudence (practical wisdom), justice, fortitude (courage), and temperance (moderation). As these virtues are not arbitrary, but instead correspond to some fundamental characteristics of human beings, they are not only useful for moral decision-making, but they also present an original anthropological theory. This paper focuses on the role of prudence in sports. Prudence has two aspects: it is a) cognitive, and b) decision-making. Perceptively it is turned toward reality, “imperatively” toward volition and action. As such, it is a fundamental virtue in sports practices. First of all, its role is in the cognition of the specific situations an athlete is in. In addition, it gives instructions as to how to respond to them. Prudence directed into the cognition of reality involves two main elements, namely memoria and docilitas. The role of memoria consists in developing and enriching special motor memory from past experiences, and so it is one of the goals of any practice of technical elements. Docilitas is the kind of open-mindedness which recognizes the true variety of things and situations to be experienced and does not cage itself in any presumption of deceptive knowledge. As such, it can be recognized in the concept of sports as “knowledge-gaining activity”. The other aspect of prudence is directed towards deciding what actions to take. With solertia, the athlete can swiftly, but with open eyes and clear-sighted vision, decide to do something good in a concrete situation. The second element is providentia (foresight), meaning the capacity to estimate with a sure instinct for the future whether or not a particular action will lead to the realization of a goal. This is demanded of all sports, especially competitive sports, where the deciding factor between top and average athletes is often not physical or technical abilities but the intellectual capacity (or tactics) to foresee what is going to happen on the field in the next few moments.

scholarly journals KONSEP KEADILAN (IUSTITIA) PERSPEKTIF ST. THOMAS AQUINAS DAN RELEVANSINYA BAGI PEMAKNAAN SILA V PANCASILA

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-44
Author(s):  
Giovanni Aditya Arum
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Summa Theologiae ◽  
Cardinal Virtues ◽  
Critical Thought ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Times

In principle justice touches the human nature as social animal. The discourse of justice has become an important theme in social and political philosophy all the times. St. Thomas Aquinas is one of the philosophers who pays much attention on this theme. In Summa Theologiae, he spent a lot of pages to explain justice as one of the cardinal virtues. Inspired by Aristotle, he defined justice as “a habit whereby a man renders to each one his due by a constant and perpetual will.” This essay wants to explain the discourse of justice according to St. Thomas Aquinas and to compare it with the concept of justice in fifth principle of Pancasila. The writter uses the relevancy study to get the convergency idea between two different ideas of justice. This essay will explore both concept of justice by St. Thomas Aquinas and Pancasila perspective. There are at least some convergency ideas between those two. But the pressure point is the concept of bonum commune. Pancasila as the Philosophische Grondslag of Indonesia as like as St. Thomas Aquinas’ idea of justice emphasizes the common good (bonum commune) as the very end of Indonesia nation. Reflecting on these convergency ideas, we can find some relevant discourses concerning justice in socio-political life of Indonesian people, i.e: law, politic, and religion.  In the end of this essay, the writer gives a critical thought to the tendency of the liberalism pathology in social life

scholarly journals Shadows of Divine Virtue: St. John of the Cross, Implicit Memory, and the Transformation Theory of Infused Cardinal Virtues

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Bushlack
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Transformation Theory ◽  
Cardinal Virtues ◽  
Descriptive Account ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Cross ◽  
John Of The Cross

The transformation theory postulates that a person’s previously acquired habits are transformed by the grace of the Holy Spirit. This article contributes to the development of the transformation theory by drawing upon St. John of the Cross and recent developments in neurobiology and psychology, especially in the transformation of memory. Placing these disciplines into a creative dialogue yields a richly descriptive account of the developmental process by which a person grows in grace and virtue toward union with God, and suggests that ethics must pay greater attention to the role of emotion in the cultivation of practical wisdom.

2. The moral virtues

2021 ◽  
pp. 22-38
Author(s):  
Craig A. Boyd ◽  
Kevin Timpe
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Cardinal Virtues ◽  
Moral Virtues ◽  
Fight Or Flight

This chapter discusses the four cardinal virtues. Aristotle describes prudence, or practical wisdom, as ‘right reasoning about what is to be done’. He considered it as the most important of the cardinal virtues since it has all human activity under its purview. Justice is the second most important virtue and involves ‘giving to others what they deserve’. The final two moral virtues are fortitude and temperance. Fortitude, or courage, concerns one’s ‘fight or flight’ emotions. It helps one to do the ‘difficult thing’ that one struggles to face. And temperance, or self-control, helps one to moderate one’s desires for food, drink, and sex.

Thomas Aquinas on the Cardinal Virtues

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Kaczor ◽  
Thomas Sherman
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Cardinal Virtues

Quaestio Disputata: Aquinas’s Virtuous Vision of the Divine Ideas

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 453-466
Author(s):  
Benjamin DeSpain
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Summa Theologiae ◽  
Cardinal Virtues

Paul DeHart has recently proposed that Thomas Aquinas did not elaborate on the ethical and anthropological implications of his position on the divine ideas. The author challenges DeHart’s interpretive assumption by demonstrating that Thomas consciously and deliberately extended the divine ideas into his vision of virtue through a network of subtle allusions to the doctrine in the Summa Theologiae. Specifically, the article considers the place of the divine ideas in Thomas’s appeal to Macrobius’s categorical division of the cardinal virtues into political, purifying, purified-in-mind, and exemplar. It further examines the relation of this gradation of virtue to Thomas’s thought on the ontological correlation between each person’s creational formation and the eschatological perfection of virtue.

scholarly journals Using the VIA Classification to Advance a Psychological Science of Virtue

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. McGrath ◽  
Mitch Brown
Keyword(s):  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Character Strengths ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Three Dimensional Model ◽  
Cardinal Virtues ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Human Functioning ◽  
Potential Contributor ◽  
Via Classification

The VIA Classification of Character Strengths and Virtue has received substantial attention since its inception as a model of 24 dimensions of positive human functioning, but less so as a potential contributor to a psychological science on the nature of virtue. The current paper presents an overview of how this classification could serve to advance the science of virtue. Specifically, we summarize previous research on the dimensional versus categorical characterization of virtue, and on the identification of cardinal virtues. We give particular attention to the three-dimensional model of cardinal virtues that includes moral, self-regulatory, and intellectual domains. We also discuss the possibility that these three clusters be treated as fundamental elements of a virtue model, meaning that they clearly and directly contribute to both individual and communal flourishing across various cultures. This discussion includes a summary of previous speculations about the evolution of adaptations underlying the human capacity for using behavioral repertoires associated with the three virtues, as well as discussing ways in which they simultaneously enhance community and individual, in the last case focusing particularly on evidence concerning mating potential. We then discuss the relationship between the evolutionary perspective on virtues and Aristotle’s concept of the reciprocity of the virtues. Finally, we provide speculations about the nature of practical wisdom. While accepting the potential value of future revisions to the VIA model, that model even under its current conditions has the potential to generate a number of intriguing and testable hypotheses about the nature of virtue.

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