The Religious Meanings of the Four Cardinal Virtues
Abstract
Thomas Aquinas to four hub virtue "Chi volunteer section," the discussion, the following points very carefully detailed to constitute,隸is, functions of three parts, but also describes four hub sort of moral issue. Wisdom of the specification, the purpose of life make profit or at most things in life tend to travel on the way to God's goodness, to reach the ultimate goal. There are two types of Ede: Steering distributors, who guide the exchange. Yoshinori is to allocate the proportion of public finance for the distribution, exchange Ede individuals in treatment between two things, the distinction between the two are different according to the nature of Ede. Fortitude is Zhuangxin, macro degree, patience, perseverance; some people have been beyond the ability of a major event in the crime of malicious invasion and endure the pain of difficult times, people need courage or fortitude heart of Wizard amount of force determined their future. Germany is the section to control personal desires and fast music, so we leave it abandoned curb the law of God and love the fruit of a switch greed. Thomas Aquinas listed Ede held a total of nine German-laws: religion, filial love, gratitude, retaliation, respect, honesty, or truth, friendship or friendly, generous and expedient justice; emphasis on "moral behavior respectful of God has a unique position," that is, religion itself and its behavior, religious virtue transcendence, is oriented to God for the purpose of more close to God, all for the worship and devotion to God's external action,都is order to the glory of God, but also order dedication to gain substantial Gain on . Malicious practice that is away from and back on God sin, not the wisdom of including reckless carelessness, negligence, no permanent都will make people leave the abandoned nervous of the good; superstition is contrary Ede major deterioration in learning, such as: idolatry, divination, folk magic or taboos. In addition, to test God, perjury, profane holy, holy transaction is covered with obscene cloak of religion, but God does not respect the real deterioration of learning. Finally, delusion, vanity and greed gluttonous drunkenness, lust and other malicious Xi Yin Yi Lok people trapped in the material be kept in cages裡secular, blocking the return of God's road. Thomas Aquinas discusses the four cardinal virtues according to the three criteria-formation, subordination and function-and indicates the sequence of the four cardinal virtues. The virtue of prudence is being able to do what's the best to the purpose of life, be oriented toward God's beauty and good in the journey of life and then achieve the ultimate goal. The virtue of justice consists of the justice in distribution and the justice in exchange. The virtue of justice in distribution is to distribute public goods proportionately, while the virtue of justice in exchange is dealing with the exchange between two individuals. The difference between the two kinds of justice is due to their difference in nature. The virtue of fortitude refers to magnanimity, magnificence, patience and perseverance. In one's mind, he or she needs the power of fortitude to strengthen oneself as one is confronted with something beyond his ability and suffering from sins and pains. The virtue of temperance is to moderate one's desire and happiness as well as abstain from greed, which makes us abandon God's laws and the fruit of charity. Aquinas lists nine subordinate virtues under justice: religion, piety, gratitude, vengeance, veneration, honesty or truthfulness, friendship or friendliness, prodigality, expedient justice. He also stresses religion itself and the act of religion. The extraordinariness of the virtue of religion is to get closer to God for the purpose of being oriented toward Him. All the external acts that are contributed to the worship of God are meant to glorify God and bring substantial interests to the contributor. Bad habits are the sins of abstaining from God. The vices opposed to prudence, including temerity, thoughtlessness and inconstancy, would make one abstain from the divine good. Superstition is the major one of those bad habits opposed to the virtue of justice, such as , idolatry, divination, folk magic and taboos. Besides, the temptation of God, perjury, sacrilege, and simony are bad habits which are ostensibly religious but substantially blasphemous. Finally, bad habits like presumption, vanity, gluttony, drunkenness, lust and incontinence , trap man in the material world and prevent one from returning to God