23 July 2022

The Potential Parts of Justice

Lesson Six of Theological and Cardinal Virtues, with Fr Gregory Pine, OP, BA, STL, Assistant Director for Campus Outreach at the Thomistic Institute.

Justice is the virtue, whereby one gives to another his due, by a constant and perpetual will. Thus, the potential parts of justice are going to be those virtues which share somehow in this dynamic, but lacking its whole power. We see how justice is present in practically every dimension of social order. By extending the reign of justice into different aspects of human life, the potential parts of justice bring about an order. This order obtains genuine respect and equitable exchange among dignified persons, each free to be as he ought to be, and delighted in so being.

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