Counsel & The Limits Of Reason | Prof. Adam Eitel
The Thomistic Institute
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Is There a Virtue Rat in Confirmation?
Yel: Prudence is about ordering means to ends. And it's prudence truly so called when the ends in view are good ends. A capital vice is a vice that's so pregnant with mischief and wickedness that it gives birth to other vices, which have the goal of helping that vice secure the thing at once. So if i am in the throes of vainglory, what i want is to be praised. And i want so badly to be praised that miif, it's very likely, and especially over time, that i will develop other vices like envy. Envy is a vice consequent to it also happens to be a capital
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