On Human VirtuesImportant thoughts:

Good Human Acts – building block of virtues. (The opposite is also true: Bad human acts are the building blocks of vices)

HABIT

-a stable disposition to act or respond in a particular way

-It is formed by the repetition of an act which one values.

-They are human acts even if, as a habit, one simply has virtual awareness.

BAD HABITGOOD HABIT

IMPORTANT THOUGHTS: (on Human Virtues)

…BUT NOT ALL HABITS ARE VIRTUES

REPETITION IS THE KEY TO THE FORMATION OF HABIT…

PRACTICE DOES NOT MAKE PERFECT; IT MAKES PERMANENCE.

ALL VIRTUES ARE HABITS…

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FORMATION OF A HABIT

HUMAN ACT

GOOD or BAD

REPETITION

(Actual or Tolerated)

HABITGOOD or BAD

CHARACTERISTICS OF A HABIT

• Effective achieves its end as intended• Efficient task is carried out hardly with any error• Ease task is carried out hardly with minimal effort• Spontaneity – reacts promptly to triggering stimulus (i)

• Universal– whenever, wherever, to whomever

A. WHAT ARE HABITS?

Habits are stable dispositions produced by the repetition of acts. They are differentiated from Customs in that customs are accepted or habitual practice. Custom cause habits and habits allow customs to continue.

TYPES OF HABITS

1. According to origin - infused or acquired2. According to purpose - natural or supernatural3. According to morality- good or bad4. According to influence on moral acts - voluntary or involuntary

Voluntary habits are acquired by voluntary repetition of acts. These are not deliberately checked, so they continue influencing the agent.

Voluntary habits increase the voluntariness of the act even though they diminish one’s freedom (in a sense that since there is a habit, it is much easier to commit the act)

Habits, Customs, Virtues

CUSTOM HABIT

FORMATION OF A VIRTUE (Human)

AIR THAT VIRTUES BREATHE•Freedom – free from fear or other vain considerations

•Responsibility – one owns an act and its consequence

•Spirit of Sacrifice – HEROIC to the point even of death

•Universal Charity – absence of any bias. •Conviction - based on firm and true knowledge - •Prudence --- Maturity•Fortitude --- Heroism•Temperance --- not foolhardy or due to precipitancy•Justice --- fair to everyone concerned

SUPERNATURAL VIRTUES has for its object GOD, motivated by love for and of God.

TWO TYPESACQUIRED: has for its basis HUMAN VIRTUESINFUSED: e.g. Faith, Hope and Charity

VIRTUE – A STABLE DISPOSITION TO DO GOOD

Some cases related to VIRTUES . . .

1. “Mga Kolehiyalang nagwawala….” “good girls” with bad habits.

2. “Catholic by convenience”….

3. “Forced to Good”...

• due to servile fear to authority

• Fear of losing --- self-esteem; honor, peer etc.

4. The evil of Nationalism