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Автор: William May
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etc. Grisez, moreover, believes, as will be seen in Chapter Six, that the beatitudes of our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount can rightly be regarded as “Christian modes of response,” and that those who choose in harmony with these divinely revealed moral principles — principles rooted in the new commandment that we are to love others as Jesus has loved us — acquire and are given with God’s grace such Christian virtues as “humility,” “detachment,” “Christian fortitude,” “mercy,” “single-minded devotion to God,” etc.

      “Since prudence is the right reason of things to be done,” he writes:

      Of the virtues perfecting a person through his intellect, then, the only one that is a moral virtue — one that makes not only the person’s “work” good but also the person himself or herself — is that of prudence.

      In Summa theologiae (q. 58, a.2), Thomas further discusses more fully how moral virtue differs from a purely intellectual virtue. There he writes:

      In an illuminating passage in which he shows that fortitude is a virtue necessary for a good moral life, St. Thomas clearly expresses his thought on the cardinal virtues and their role in the moral life. In it he writes: