The Relationship Between Appropriate and Acquired Moral Virtues

Much of what I have to say could be taken as a defense of some of what Meritan had to say on these questions, though not all. The very existence of the infused moral virtues brings out the necessity as I see it, of real but indirect subordination of civil society to the attitude. What I propose with no little fear of being adequate is that if we see the acquired virtues as essentially and ultimately political that the good towards which they work is perfect of an earthly city as an ordered whole. And so belonging to man in so far as he is a part of a whole and helping him to realize the common good of that whole, the city. Yet we have here no lasting city