Assertion: temperance | /r/CapableOf | devalue strong passions
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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: 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: While we saw that this view appeared vulnerable to an objection that temperance devalues strong passions, and (by extension) human sexuality, we also saw that contemporary ethics (in particular, Roberts’ account of temperance as right understanding ) offers insights into our conceptualization of rationality that give Aquinas’ account the ability to accomodate strong passions in the moral life.