Lesson Eight in Virtue, with Fr James Brent, OP, PhD, STL, Asst Professor of Philosophy, Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, Washington DC.
According to Aristotle’s definition of moral virtue, a virtue is a disposition to choose according to the mean relative to us as determined by the one who is prudent. Now, many questions commonly come up about the mean of virtue. A little thought reveals that the mean is not the same for everybody—even in one and the same matter.
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