Index
Index
abstinence, 79
addiction, 77
Aquinas, Saint Thomas, viii–xii, passim throughout the text
ambition, 60
anger, 38, 51–52, 82–83
appetites, 51–52, 69–70, 73–74
Aristotle, ix, 78, 88
backbiting, 35, 98
Benedict, Saint, 20–21
boasting, 37
beauty, moral, 5, 7, 75, 81
cardinal virtues. See virtues, cardinal
Catechism of the Catholic Church, 3
caution, 18
character, moral, 6
charity. See love
chastity, 2, 25–26, 34, 81–82
Cicero, vix
circumspectio (internal review), 18
civility, 37–38
clemency, 83
concupiscence, disordered, 89
constancy, 66
consumerism, 62
continence, 25–26, 81–82
courage (fortitude), 3, 6, 8, 13, 34, 49–68, 82–83, 95, 96
modes (attack and endurance), 56–57
related virtues, 56–68
courtesy, 38–39
covetousness (avarice/greed), 27–28, 41–42
cowardice, 25, 51, 52, 53–55
craftiness (shrewdness), 3, 26–27
cruelty, 83
curiositas (idle curiosity), 86
decisions, 9–11, 14–19
desire, 70–1, 72, 73, 76, 77–78, 80, 84, 89
detraction, 35
devotion, 43
discretion, 21
dishonesty, 3–4, 36–37
dissimulation, 37
docilitas (openness), 17
dress, 87–88
drinking, 80–81
drunkenness, 80–81
ends/means, 12
epikeia, 24, 42
eubulia, 23
eutrapelia, 88
excellence, human/moral, 5–7, 8, 91–92
faintheartedness (pusillanimity), 59, 61
faith, Christian, ix,
faith (virtue), 93, 94–95, 96, 98
fasting, 79, 80
fear, 14, 50, 53–54
fearlessness, 3, 52, 53, 55–56
flattery, 40
fortitude. See courage
Francis, Pope, 33
freedom, 31
friendliness (affability), 40–41, 87
generosity. See liberality
gifts of the Holy Spirit, 99
gluttony, 79–80
gnome, 23–24
gossip, 35–36, 98
gratitude (thankfulness), 39–40
guilt, 74
habitus, 2, 3
happiness (beatitude), 5–7, 91–92
honestas (uprightness), 75–76
honesty (truth-telling), 36–37
honor, 57, 60
hope, 93, 95–96, 98
humility, 61, 84–85
hypocrisy, 37
ignorance, vincible/invincible, 17
image of god, 30–31, 91, 92, 97
imprudence, 24–25, 52, 56, 80–81
individualism, 30–31
injustice, 25, 32, 34–36
insensitivity, 76–77
intemperance, 76–78
intellectus (grasp of principles), 16–17
intemperance, 25, 76–78, 80–81
irony, 37
irresoluteness, 67
judgment, harsh, 35
justice, 1–2, 3, 6, 8, 13, 20, 24, 27, 29–48, 52, 62, 84, 87, 88, 95, 96, 98, 99
and love, 44, 97
related virtues, 36–48
as “right relationship,” 30, 33–34
types of (commutative, legal/general, distributive), 32–33
liberality/generosity, 27, 41–42, 62
love (charity), 93, 96–97
lust (unchastity), 80, 82
magnanimity, 57–59, 63, 85, 95
opposed vices, 59–61
magnificence, 62–63
martyrdom, 49
meanness, 63
memoria (remembering), 15–16
mildness (meekness), 83
modesty, 84–89
patience, 63–65
Paul, Saint, viii
perseverance, 65–68
Pieper, Josef, 27
piety, 45–47
filial, 46–47
patriotic, 47
play, 87–88
pleasure, 70–1, 72, 73, 76, 77, 79
prayer, 43–44, 67, 100–102
presumption, 59–60
pride, 85
principles, 4, 6, 12, 15, 16, 17, 23–24, 90
prodigality, 41–42
providencia (foresight), 18
prudence, 1, 3, 6, 8, 9–28, 34, 42, 46–47, 52, 66, 70, 72–73, 82, 87, 88, 89, 95, 98–99
imperfect/counterfeit, 25–27
elements of, 14–19
related virtues, 23–24
types of, 19–23
purity, 81
pusillanimity, see faintheartedness
ratio (prudent reasoning), 18
recklessness (foolhardiness), 52, 56
religion, 42–45, 101
“respect of persons,” 35
rules, vii–viii, 12, 16, 23–24, 42, 90
self-mastery, 72
shame. See verecundia
sin, 71, 89, 92, 93
capital sin, 80, 82, 83
sobriety, 80
solertia (prudent shrewdness), 17
stubbornness, 68
studiositas (studiousness), 85–86
subjectivism, 16, 103
summa theologiae, viii, xi–xii, 100
synesis, 23
Teresa of Avila, Saint, 67, 84
temperance, 2, 3, 6, 13, 34, 38, 51–52, 69–89, 95
elements of, 73–76
kinds of, 78–82
opposed vices, 76–78
other moderating virtues, 82–89
thankfulness. See gratitude
theological virtues. See virtues, theological
vainglory, 60–61, 85
vengeance, 38–39
verecundia (shame), 73–74
vice (general), 3–4, 25
virtue (general), 1–8
acquired and infused (natural/supernatural), 4, 5–6, 93–94, 98–99, 100, 101
intellectual and moral, 4
interrelationship of, 7–8, 13–14, 25, 34, 51–52
types of, 4–5, 6
virtues, cardinal, ix-xi, 5, 6, 8
virtues, infused moral, 5, 91, 92, 98–99, 100–101
virtues, theological, ix-x, 6, 43, 93–97
voting, 21–22
war, 22