"Non enim exigitur ad rationem virtutis, quod attingat rectae rationis medium in indivisibili, sicut Stoici putabant, sed sufficit prope medium esse, ut in II Ethic. dicitur."
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae I-II.66.1.Resp. Latin from Corpus Thomisticum.
Monday, January 12, 2026
What a relief
"the nature of virtue does not require that man should reach [(attingat)] the mean of right reason as though it were an indivisible point, as the Stoics thought, but it is enough that he should approach [(propre . . . esse, that he be near)] the mean, as stated in the Ethics [(II.9 (1109b18))]."
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