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Episode 27 – What Are Virtues and Why Do We Need Them? | Fr. Michael Sherwin, O.P.

Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy

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The Misfortunes of Virtue

A virtue and its fullest definition would be a good habit, operative habit of the soul. That makes the agent good and his action good. The problem is there are many obstacles against us understanding the terms of that definition. So something in between the power and the act has to intervene to dispose us to act well.

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