In my first post I noted that Thomas Aquinas utilized St. Augustine’s definition of virtue. Augustine stated that virtue was a habit “by which we live righteously, of which no one can make bad use, which God works in us, without us” (Augustine, On Free Will). For Aquinas this is a good working definition. But in order to understand his distinction between intellectual and moral virtue, we need to hear Aquinas’ own understanding:
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