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A look at the notion of virtue in Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas.

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When we define virtue as a good habit we need to know what we mean by good. Virtuous action also requires freedom and thirdly, common sense in the evaluation of the circumstances.

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The section today looks at the importance of free action for personal growth. Individual actions, though small, impact on happiness because they have the power to form good habits or to undermine them.

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We begin chapter four entitled: Personal fulfilment through knowledge and action. The first section looks and the role of knowledge for acquiring virtue. Knowledge is explained as occurring on three levels: the biological, the emotional and the spiritual level.

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We read to the end of chapter 3. This section discusses happiness as harmony. Returning to the image of an orchestra, five aspects of the human person are identified where harmony is a good leading to fulfilment : 1. Interior harmony 2. Harmony with others 3. Harmony with creation 4. Harmony with God and 5. Existential harmony.