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Happiness and virtue

Moral Life

Action is ordered to happiness through virtue, law, prudence, and grace.

This domain treats human action as ordered to ends. It studies happiness, voluntary action, habit, virtue, law, prudence, sin, and the way grace heals and elevates moral life.

What this domain studies

  • Beatitude as the horizon of human action.
  • Virtue, vice, habit, prudence, and moral formation.
  • Natural law and practical reason.
  • The relation of moral virtue to grace and charity.

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