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Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and their Remedies is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Moral formation” and “character development” are popular buzzwords, but they are ineffective concepts without an understanding of what good character is and how to cultivate it. The traditional teachings on the “seven deadly sins,” or capital vices, compiled by saints such as Augustine, Pope Gregory I, and Aquinas, offer a strong foundation for recognizing virtues to cultivate and vices to...

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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