... intelligence and prudence, being intellectual, liberality and temperance being moral, virtue.(The Nicomachean Ethic, Bk 1, Ch 13)" However Aquinas moves to a higher step by saying as all the perfections must be united in God. Therefore all perfections are to be with God or in God. Aristotle's virtue as a mean state has profound influence on Aquinas's moral virtues. Aquinas says, "It (moral virtue) is a mean state as lying between two vices, a vice of excess on the one side and a vice of deficiency on the other, and as aiming at the mean in the emotions and actions."(Nicomachean Ethics; Bk 2, Ch 9). When Aristotle talks about human good, he starts with nature of good as the end all actions are to be directed. "Every art and every scientific inquiry, and similarly every action and purpose, may be said to aim at some good. Hence the good ...

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