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The Role of Courage in Intellectual Work
Department of Philosophy, Sergio Arboleda University, Bogotá, Colombia
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Abstract
Intellectual life is not a thing apart from the humanizing and moralizing influences that moral virtues provide. Saint Thomas’s teachings about moral virtues suggest how essential he considers them for a flourishing speculative life. He makes all this very clear in the Second Part of the Summa Theologiae . The potential parts of fortitude which have a crucial role in intellectual work are patience, perseverance and magnanimity. In this article I show how these potential virtues act in speculative life.
KeywordsMoral VirtuesIntellectual WorkCouragePatienceConstancyPerseveranceMagnanimityPresumptionAmbitionVaingloryObstinacyArroganceAristotleSaint Thomas Aquinas
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