Disputed Questions on Virtue

During his second stint as regent master of theology at the University of Paris in1269B1272, Thomas Aquinas fulfilled the threefold magisterial task: legere, disputare, praedicare B to lecture, to dispute, to preach. On Virtues in General and On the Cardinal Virtues are two series of disputed questions which date from this period. In them Thomas, at the height of his powers and under the pressure of the raging dispute over Aristotle, discusses the central feature of his moral doctrine, virt...