What is the virtue that comes after justice and holds the third place among the cardinal virtues?
It is the virtue of fortitude (CXXIII.-CXL.).
What is fortitude?
It is that perfection in the moral order of the sensitive appetite whose object is to make man hold firm in the presence of the greatest fear, or to keep within bounds the most daring boldness as regards peril of death that presents itself in the course of just war, in order that man might never fail in his duty (CXXIII. 1-6).
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