Excessive prudence, for example, can become cowardly or calculated. Perhaps for these reasons the virtues as classically rendered are rarely put into practice. It should be added that focusing on the classical virtues can be a detriment to the practice of human love. Virtue in Neo-Christian Humanism flows from Love for man and God. As such it is tempered and molded by this Love.
Love sets the proper limits on virtue and gives it motivation and meaning.
The classical vision yields to the vision of virtue as a natural concomitant to the loving interaction of human beings as interdependent entities. As we have said before, this interaction is a natural fulfillment and a form of worship. In the Neo-Christian Humanist view human beings help each other to lead virtuous lives. This is much more humane than the lonely travail envisioned by the ancients. That ours is a more realistic view of virtue and free will is made evident by the findings of modern psychology and the behavioral sciences in general.