Some virtues have passions as their proper matter, but some virtues not.
 Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (1274). copy citation

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Author Thomas Aquinas
Source Summa Theologica
Topic passion virtue
Date 1274
Language English
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Note Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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“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.” source