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We come now to the consideration of habits specifically. And since
habits, as we have said (Question 54, Article 3), are divided
into good and bad, we must speak in the first place of good habits,
which are virtues, and of other matters connected with them, namely
the Gifts, Beatitudes and Fruits; in the second place, of bad
habits, namely of vices and sins. Now five things must be considered
about virtues: (1) the essence of virtue; (2) its subject;
(3) the division of virtue; (4) the cause of virtue; (5)
certain properties of virtue.
Under the first head, there are four points of inquiry:
(1) Whether human virtue is a habit?
(2) Whether it is an operative habit?
(3) Whether it is a good habit?
(4) Of the definition of virtue.
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