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passages for his solution. Thus, he admits that Augustine seems to deny the possibility of natural virtue: “The life of all those without faith is sin…wherever knowledge of the truth is lacking, there virtue is false even if one’s behavior is excellent” (DQV 1 a9 obj 2).11 Since Aquinas believes, following Aristotle, that we can indeed acquire virtue naturally through habituation, he has to defuse this quotation. He does so by replying tersely (and unconvincingly) that such Augustinian remarks were meant to apply only to the higher virtues that lead us to true beatitude. In the next article ...more
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Medieval Philosophy
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