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    organized system virtue. Aquinas divides virtues into the categories. Throughout the selected reading, Aquinas refers to four major virtues that he refers to as cardinal virtues. According to Aquinas’ writing, these four virtues are prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude. Within, these four cardinal virtues reside various secondary virtues. These secondary virtues are parts of the cardinal virtue expressed in specific applications. Additionally, Aquinas refers to these virtues as theological

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    people come together to form a strong and faithful society. Throughout the movie, the cardinal virtue of justice, the theological virtue of love an act of Christian morality, and an act of solidarity are demonstrated through the journey of this coach and his basketball team. The cardinal virtue of justice is treating others with the respect they deserve and with fairness. Coach Carter demonstrates this cardinal

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    everyday life. In order to live a moral life, one must live by the virtues, respond to the call of God in our lives, and develop a character that resembles a life of virtue. There are two different kinds of virtues in the Catholic Church. There are Cardinal Virtues and there are Theological Virtues. The Cardinal Virtues are prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice. The Theological Virtues are faith, hope, and love. These virtues show us how to live our lives in accord with what God wants us to

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    Plato recognizes four cardinal virtues which can all relate to the soul and the city state. The four virtues these include being courageous, moderation, wisdom and justice (433e). All of these factors take on similar descriptions in terms of the soul and the city-state. For example, Plato and Socrates discuss moderation for the city state as being able to have order and to not commit any crimes. In contrast for soul, moderation means to recognize pleasures and desires as well as to have self-control

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    Lewis employs the four Cardinal Virtues in the four Pevensies—Susan with Prudence, Peter with Temperance, Edmund with Justice, and Lucy as Fortitude—to show that losing any one of these virtues prevents access to a Heaven-like place. But in order to keep the Cardinal Virtues one must keep Faith. The four Cardinal Virtues include: Prudence,Temperance, Justice, and Fortitude. They are called the cardinal virtues because, “they are the virtues on which all the others hinge (Latin, cardo, a hinge).”

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    Virtue Ethics For the West, Aristotle and Plato are said to be the founders of Virtue Ethics. Plato’s cardinal virtues are: the courage (the heart, the soldier) is the virtue of the spirited or passionate or emotional aspect of humans, sensuous (the body, the worker) appetite the virtue is temperance, and reason (the mind, the philosopher king) is the great virtue that makes us dignified and distinctively human. If all these virtues are well developed and balanced, we have a just human being and

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    The cardinal virtues serve as the four principle moral values in Catholicism, which are prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. These virtues ultimately call individuals to form habits that will incline one to do good and to avoid all evil. The first cardinal value is prudence, which allows individuals to correctly judge what is right and what is wrong in any given situation. The second cardinal value, justice, is connected to the idea of one’s rights and is explained as the constant determination

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    Justice is one of four cardinal Platonic virtues. These virtues are said to be good by nature, and so they must be ideals that all individuals strive to demonstrate in their lives. In The Republic, Plato (through Socrates) attempts to find the definition of Justice through dialogue with his colleagues. One of his colleagues Thrasymachus proclaims that: “Justice is in the interest of the stronger.” (338c) In other words, rulers make laws from which only they reap the benefits of. Fortunately, this

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    The 7 Deadly Sins and 7 Cardinal Virtues ======================================== Overview -------- The "Seven Deadly Sins"', also known as the "Capital Vices" or "Cardinal Sins", are a classification of vices that were originally used in early Christian teachings to educate and instruct followers concerning (immoral) fallen man's tendency to sin. The Roman Catholic Church divided sin into two principal categories: "venial", which are relatively minor, and could be forgiven through any sacrament

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    The Cardinal Virtues are the four principal moral virtues first laid down by Plato and adopted by the Catholic Church. The Cardinal Virtues can be practiced by anyone and they represent the foundation of natural morality. Jackie Robinson and the film 42 are great examples of moral strength and the Cardinal Virtues. The Cardinal Virtues are also ever present in the news of today, both positively and negatively. The first Cardinal Virtue is Prudence. Prudence concerns itself with judging what is right

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