does not oppose each vice to a particular virtue.40 So, for example, avarice in this work is opposed not to the virtue of generosity (as just described), but instead is considered an offense against justice. What Aquinas’s formulation in the Summa does reveal more clearly, though, are the goods at stake in the case of each vice. A glance at the virtues with which he associates the seven vices yields the following conclusions: charity is about love
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