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Finis Operis
Latin term that can be translated as “the end of the deed.” It is that which an action is naturally inclined to bring about regardless of what the agent performing the action intends.
Friendship
A relationship between persons in which each wills the good of the other and is aware of the reciprocation. More succinctly, it is reciprocated goodwill and awareness of the reciprocation. In the Aris...
Government
The institutional authority by which a state is ruled and whose principal concern is to protect and promote the common good of the political community. The authority in a government most especially i...
Habit
(Habitus or Hexis).— Broadly speaking, a settled or stable disposition in a thing. In its strongest sense, a habit (or habitus) is not devoid of awareness or freedom.
Happiness
See Beatitude.
Justice
The moral and cardinal virtue by which one gives to another person or institution what is owed thereto. Justice is distinguished into strict commutations between parties; legal or political justice b...
Law
According to the generally accepted definition of St. Thomas Aquinas, an ordinance of reason, framed for the common good, by those who have care of the community as a whole, and promulgated (Summa the...
Love
The appetitive resting in a good, abstracting from presence or absence. Such appetite can be either sensate or intellectual. The presence of the good adds the note of joy; absence adds the note of d...
Monastics
In scholastic usage, the term for general ethics. The term is seldom used in this sense today.
Moral
1. Pertaining to morality. 2. Pertaining to the will and, hence, not a matter of an absolute necessity. 3. The goodness or rightness of an action.

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