Goal
To analyze how Thomas connects his philosophical principles (which he calls Cardinal virtues) to
justice generally and to legal justice specifically.
Unit 2 Readings
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (2000). Canada: A People’s History. Various Video Clips as
specified per unit presentation.
Government of Canada (2017). Canadian Heritage Website. Link: https://www.canada.ca/en/
canadian-heritage.html
Government of Canada (2017). History and Heritage Website.
Thomas (1274). Second Part of the Second Part, 58: Justice. In Summa Theologica. Translated by
Fathers of the English Dominican Province (1947). New York: Benziger Bros.
Click here for the modified version of Thomas' text
Optional Readings
Borrows, J. (1997). Chapter 6: Wampum at Niagara: The Royal Proclamation, Canadian legal history,
and self-government. In Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada: Essays on Law, Equality and
Respect for Difference (pp. 155-172). UBC Press. Available from the Ebook Central ebook database*.
(optional)
Crowley, T. (2000). Essentials – Canadian History Pre-Colonisation to 1867: The Beginning of a
Nation. Research and Education Association. Piscataway, NJ. (Recommended for students with no
background in Canadian history)
Dickason, O. P., & McNab, D. (2009). Canada's First Nations. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
(optional) (1992 edition is available in print in the RRU Library Print collection E78.C2 D535 1992).
, Summa Theologica?
1. Prudence
2. Justice
3. Fortitude
4. Temperance
Fortitude & Temperance
• supporting role in the work of prudence and justice
• brings desire and passions under the rule of reason
• create a stable environment in the soul that allow us to pursue the higher acts that prudence and
justice more surely and easily
The virtues helps us perfect our external actions and internal movements (passions).
Prudence
• Mother of all other virtues: none, but the prudent man can be just, brave and temperate
• The good man is good insofar as he is prudent
• Prudence is the cause that other virtues are virtues
• It perfects every action that we undertake, no exception
◦ We deliberate how to achieve the goal, we pick a goal given the circumstances, we command
ourself to take the means and achieve the goal
• Ensures reasons conforms our actions to reality, regularly achieving what one sets out to do
• it perfects the intellect, deliberation and choice in all action
• therefore is always present in the works of justice. temperance and fortitude = it commands all
acts in the other virtues
• other virtues support and depend on prudence = they are connected
•
Contemporary thinking - caution, trueness in business dealings
To analyze how Thomas connects his philosophical principles (which he calls Cardinal virtues) to
justice generally and to legal justice specifically.
Unit 2 Readings
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (2000). Canada: A People’s History. Various Video Clips as
specified per unit presentation.
Government of Canada (2017). Canadian Heritage Website. Link: https://www.canada.ca/en/
canadian-heritage.html
Government of Canada (2017). History and Heritage Website.
Thomas (1274). Second Part of the Second Part, 58: Justice. In Summa Theologica. Translated by
Fathers of the English Dominican Province (1947). New York: Benziger Bros.
Click here for the modified version of Thomas' text
Optional Readings
Borrows, J. (1997). Chapter 6: Wampum at Niagara: The Royal Proclamation, Canadian legal history,
and self-government. In Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada: Essays on Law, Equality and
Respect for Difference (pp. 155-172). UBC Press. Available from the Ebook Central ebook database*.
(optional)
Crowley, T. (2000). Essentials – Canadian History Pre-Colonisation to 1867: The Beginning of a
Nation. Research and Education Association. Piscataway, NJ. (Recommended for students with no
background in Canadian history)
Dickason, O. P., & McNab, D. (2009). Canada's First Nations. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
(optional) (1992 edition is available in print in the RRU Library Print collection E78.C2 D535 1992).
, Summa Theologica?
1. Prudence
2. Justice
3. Fortitude
4. Temperance
Fortitude & Temperance
• supporting role in the work of prudence and justice
• brings desire and passions under the rule of reason
• create a stable environment in the soul that allow us to pursue the higher acts that prudence and
justice more surely and easily
The virtues helps us perfect our external actions and internal movements (passions).
Prudence
• Mother of all other virtues: none, but the prudent man can be just, brave and temperate
• The good man is good insofar as he is prudent
• Prudence is the cause that other virtues are virtues
• It perfects every action that we undertake, no exception
◦ We deliberate how to achieve the goal, we pick a goal given the circumstances, we command
ourself to take the means and achieve the goal
• Ensures reasons conforms our actions to reality, regularly achieving what one sets out to do
• it perfects the intellect, deliberation and choice in all action
• therefore is always present in the works of justice. temperance and fortitude = it commands all
acts in the other virtues
• other virtues support and depend on prudence = they are connected
•
Contemporary thinking - caution, trueness in business dealings
