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Grace and the City: Infused Moral Virtues and Common Goods

Sed Contra: A Podcast of Catholic Theology

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Indirect Subordination of the Civil Good to Be

The view that acquired and infused virtues cannot coexist has been called unappealing for the way it seems to split up or compartmentalize a man. I would rather put this indirect subordination in terms of two cities as Thomas himself speaks in several places. The act ordered towards the Bonham Chivile aimed at a worldly end cannot be meritorious except with the mediation of another moral virtue lifting the man's soul beyond all worldly ends. This is my formulation of the basis of indirect subordination of the civil good to be attitude. Maritan spoke of this in somewhat similar terms he put it in terms of the indirect subordinated of the body politic to the supernatural end of the human

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