The Connection of the Virtues (Aquinas 101)

At first glance, it might appear that the moral virtues are not connected to each other.

St. Thomas Aquinas holds that as the moral virtues progress toward their perfect expression, they rise and fall together. At the same time, he accounts for what we all experience in the moral life: our exercise of the virtues can often remain uneven.

The Connection of the Virtues (Aquinas 101) - Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.

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[vivatchristvsrex]

Thank you for this great video father, God bless you and please pray for Turkish Christians

[RodRivenLadroma]

Moral virtues shape character and guide actions. Courage, justice, compassion, honesty, and wisdom are key virtues. They encourage personal growth and ethical decision-making. Cultivating these virtues promotes a compassionate society.

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[roisinpatriciagaffney]

Excellent teaching, which aids in augmenting the tenets of our Catholic faith.
Thank you, Father Guilbeau.
Pax Christi.

[erickayanong]

Very informative. Thank you for this video!

[kristindreko]

Thank you Aquinas 101, may God bless you!

[luiscazares]

The element that the virtues have in common is the will. If it is exercised in any of the three virtues shown, it will already be exercised for any of the other virtues. It's like a muscle, whether you train it in the gym or use it at work, it will be strengthened to use either one or the other.

[edinnm]

Thank you, Fr. Aquinas. Excellent video! I'm a cradle Catholic who is learning so much more about our Catholic faith from these TI videos. God Bless you all!

[newnew]

I pictured a trident in my mind with the handle as prudence and the 3 tips as the rest of the virtues. The perfect virtues would be long tips and the imperfect ones as short tips. The stick or handle would be thin or solid accordingly. 🔱

[reggiestickleback]

The Saints are drawn in such an epic manner nice illustrations haha

[ulyssespalomares]

What an enlightening video! Thank you so much for this.

[ma.teresitavillar]

Very enlightening! Thank you Father and Aquinas 101.

[AndreVille]

Great videos. Thanks for producing them. My only critique/suggestion is that you should provide the references from the Summa underlying the teachings in each video. Or, at least, include them in the information below the video.

[MTHowards]

this is helpful - thank you very much. It would be interesting for those of us working in integral development to hear more about how the Moral and Theological Virtues inform or complement each other for the flourishing of a community/society and/or the for the common good.

[peter_hobbs]

Thanks so much for your concise, insightful and well presented videos

[fredericobonaldo]

Congrats for this video, this is a pretty crucial existential issue, because it is the philosophical expression either of a whole good person or of a partly good one. Besides, I think it's quite important to say that a virtuous person can or sometimes really makes mistakes regarding every field of life, because he never achieves the fulness of any virtue, though he will do good deeds in a habitual basis due to the level of virtue he already have reached.

[fr.chrispietraszko]

Could you also speak to the connection between the speculative and practical virtues?

[jurisprudens]

Thank You! What about the theological virtues? How are they related?

[bman]

His name is Fr. Aquinas?! He was born to be a Dominican.