
Dante, Aquinas, and the Virtues | Father Albert Trudel
The Thomistic Institute
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The Virtues of the Holy Spirit
Aquinas and Dante are both extolling a system of virtuous action that transforms the human person from being someone prone to sin. That person is transformed through the gift and grace of the Holy Spirit given in baptism and completed in confirmation. And it gives that person a new end, a new beginning, and it divifies the virtues. For the ancients, prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude were just ordinary, the ordinary virtues meant to bring us to the good life within the polis. For Aquinas, these are virtues which are meant to carry us even to the kingdom of heaven.
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