Assertion: temperance | /r/CapableOf | devalue effort
Facets:
value: in the moral life
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
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: 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: Does temperance devalue effort?
text: To conclude this section, I should re‐iterate that, in replying to the objection that temperance devalues effort, my purpose has not been to provide a dialectically effective response to a Kantian objector.