CF 3

THE VIRTUES – good habits.

- Gives us a disposition to do good actions.
- We develop interior habits that incline us to do particular actions.
THE PRINCIPAL VIRTUES:
1. PRUDENCE – a Practical Wisdom.
- Deliberating well about what actions we should do.
- Direction in what we should do in practical situations.
2. JUSTICE – a Practical Wisdom.
- rendering to each and to all what belongs to them.
- Act justly according to what practical reason directs us.
- Used in seeking the perfection of society.
3. FORTITUDE – constancy in holding fast to good actions even when they are difficult.
- Strength against withdrawing from the good we should do.
- Constant against oppression.
4. TEMPERANCE – curbing the passions that incite us to do evil actions.
- Prevents us from yielding to our disordered desires and pursuing evil.
- Used against temptations and to avoid evil.
THE THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES:
1. CHARITY – lost without grace.