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Often appears with: the nature and attributes of God · justice as a virtue · infused virtue · efficient cause of virtue · definition of virtue
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“If we omit this phrase, the remainder of the definition will apply to all virtues in general, whether acquired or infused.” Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) · observation
Aquinas defends a standard definition of virtue—good quality of the mind by which one lives righteously, no one can use badly, which God works in us without us—explaining how each phrase fits causes and effects.
genus. But good is more common than quality, since it is convertible with being. Therefore "good" should not be put in the definition of virtue, as a difference of quality. Obj. 3: Further, as Augustine says (De Trin. xii, 3): "When we come across anything that is not common to us and the beasts of the field, it is something appertaining to the mind." But there are virtues even of the irrational parts; as the Philos…