![]() More recently, furthermore, I’ve begun to suspect that there is a parallel gap in the list of Deadly Sins. Specifically, I began to suspect that there was a glaring hole in the list of Cardinal virtues-a hole that adding the Theological Virtues didn’t fill. I began wondering, however, whether there wasn’t something missing. And since four plus three gives us seven-the biblical number of perfection-I wasn’t going to complain. We read Aquinas’s argument that we ought to add three Theological Virtues to our list. Later in the semester, we would then discover what happened to the Cardinal Virtues when Christians turned to philosophy. It’s a much more boring book, but I find its ethical theory significantly more compelling. ![]() We would start with Plato’s Republic, where the Cardinal Virtues are introduced, 1 but I was always happy when we could begin Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. ![]() Once upon a time, it was my job to teach students the four Cardinal Virtues. ![]()
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