Assertion: temperance | /r/HasProperty | misused for evil
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text: Along the way I consider three common objections to Aquinas’ account of temperance: the objection that temperance can be misused for evil, the objection that temperance devalues effort, and the objection that temperance devalues strong passions and thereby implicitly devalues the goodness of sexuality.
text: If this is right, and if temperance can be abused for evil, then, by Aquinas’ own lights , temperance would fail to truly be a virtue.
text: My discussion is guided by three natural objections to Aquinas’ account of temperance: the objection that temperance is not virtuous because it can be misused for evil (§3), the objection that temperance devalues effort in the moral life (§4), and the objection that temperance devalues strong passions, thus implicitly leading to a devaluing of sexuality (§5).
text: Can temperance be misused for evil?