“ Some virtues have passions as their proper matter, but some virtues not. ”
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (1274). copy citation
Author | Thomas Aquinas |
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Source | Summa Theologica |
Topic | passion virtue |
Date | 1274 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province |
Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17897/pg17897-images.html |
Context
“as about something that results from virtue.
Reply Obj. 2: Not only the sensitive appetite which is the subject of the passions, is rational by participation, but also the will, where there are no passions, as stated above.
Reply Obj. 3: Some virtues have passions as their proper matter, but some virtues not. Hence the comparison does not hold for all cases. ________________________
FIFTH ARTICLE [I-II, Q. 59, Art. 5]
Whether There Can Be Moral Virtue Without Passion?
Objection 1: It would seem that moral virtue can be without passion.”
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