Virtue and Vice


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1 Diverse conceptions of virtue.
2 The relation between knowledge and virtue.
3 The unity of virtue and the plurality of virtues.
4 The doctrine of virtue as a mean between the extremes of vice.
5 Virtue as an intrinsic good, its relation to happiness.
6 The distinction between virtue and continence, the consequences of the theory of virtue as habit.
7 The classification of the virtues, the correlative vices.
8 The division of virtues according to the parts or powers of the soul, the distinction between moral and intellectual virtue, the theory of the cardinal virtues.
9 Enumeration and description of the moral virtues.
10 Enumeration and description of the intellectual virtues.
11 The distinction between natural and supernatural virtues.
12 The appearances of virtue, imperfect or conditional virtues, the counterfeits of virtue, natural or temperamental dispositions which simulate virtue.
13 The order and connection of the virtues.
14 The equality and inequality of the virtues, the hierarchy of virtue and the degrees of vice.
15 The independence or interdependence of the virtues.
16 The natural causes or conditions of virtue.
17 Natural endowments, temperamental dispositions toward virtue or vice, the seeds or nurseries of virtue.
18 The role of teaching in the spheres of moral and intellectual virtue.
19 Training or practice as cause of virtue or vice, the process of habit formation.
20 The role of the family and the state in the development of moral virtue.
21 The influence of parental authority on the formation of character.
22 The moral use of rewards and punishments, the role of precept and counsel, praise and blame.
23 The guidance of laws and customs, the limits of positive law with respect to commanding virtue and prohibiting vice.
24 The influence on moral character of poetry, music, and other arts, the guidance of history and example.
25 The moral quality of human acts.
26 The distinction between human or moral acts and the nonvoluntary or reflex acts of a man.
27 The criteria of goodness and evil in human acts.
28 Circumstances as affecting the morality of human acts.
29 Psychological factors in the formation of moral virtue.
30 The emotions and pleasure and pain as the matter of virtue, the role of desire or appetite.
31 Deliberation and judgment in the formation of virtue, the role of reason.
32 Intention and choice as conditions of virtue, the role of will.
33 Virtue in relation to other moral goods or principles.
34 Duty and virtue.
35 The relation of virtue to pleasure.
36 The relation of virtue to wealth, the religious basis of economic behavior, the work ethic.
37 Virtue and honor.
38 Virtue in relation to friendship and love.
39 The role of virtue in political theory.
40 The cultivation of virtue as an end of government and the state.
41 Civic virtue, the virtue of the good citizen compared with the virtue of the good man.
42 The aristocratic principle, virtue as a condition of citizenship or public office.
43 The virtues which constitute the good or successful ruler, the vices associated with the possession of power.
44 The religious aspects of virtue and vice.
45 The moral consequences of original sin.
46 The influence of religion on moral character, the indispensability of divine grace for the acquisition of natural virtue by fallen man.
47 The divine reward of virtue and punishment of vice, here and hereafter.
48 The theory of the theological virtues.
49 Faith and disbelief.
50 Hope and despair.
51 Charity and the disorder of love.
52 The infused virtues and the moral and intellectual gifts.
53 The qualities which flow from charity, humility, mercy, chastity, obedience.
54 The vows and practices of the monastic life in relation to virtue.
55 The advance or decline of human morality.


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