10 February 2020
The Catechism of the Summa - XXXIV. OF GRATITUDE
What is the first of the other virtues annexed to justice that has for its object, not indeed a strict debt that it is impossible to acquit fully, but a certain debt of the moral order such as one is able to pay, and the payment of which is necessarily ordained to the well-being of society?
It is the virtue of gratitude (CVI.).
What is the rôle of this virtue?
The rôle of this virtue is to make us recognize rightly as it behoves, and to give payment as it were in return for, all the boons we have received from another (CVI. 1).
Is this an important virtue?
Yes, for the opposite sin, which is ingratitude, is extremely odious and well merits reproof from all (CVII.).
In gratitude ought one to strive to give in return even more than one has received?
Yes, so as to imitate oneself the goodness of a benefactor (CVI. 6).
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