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Ars Brevis | | |
9. The Instrumentative
11.9 Questions about the Ninth
Subject, or the Instrumentative
Earlier we put questions about natural
instrumentality. Here we will deal with
moral instrumentality.
128. Question: what is morality?
129. Question: what are justice and
prudence?
130. And then we ask: what are avarice,
gluttony etc?
Go to the ninth subject, which is the
instrumentative, and deal with it following
the things the text indicates to you.
131. Now we ask: is justice good? And
the answer is yes, or else injustice would
not be evil.
132. Further, we ask: does justice have
correlatives? And we say that it does, or
else, it could not be a habit, nor have
anything in which it can be sustained ans
situated. And as we dealt with these
matters, we can likewise make questions
about justice from all its principles and
rules. And what we said about justice also
applies to all other virtuous habits.
133. Are the vices simply privative
principles? And we reply that they are.
Now they in no way agree with the virtues.
In virtues, the doer, the doable and the
instruments convene together in a virtuous
object. And this is enough about morality,
for the sake of brevity, especially as we
deal with these matters at length in Ars
Magna.
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