The virtues
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the virtues · faḍīlah · الفضائل · al-faḍāʼil · faḍāʼil · involuntary virtues · voluntary virtues · ūlī al-faḍāʼil · اولي الفضائل
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Stromata (Greek) · On Moral Ends (Latin)
So too the virtues are causes to one another of not being separated, on account of their mutual implication;
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Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
The faḍāʼil as a system, grounded in return to God rather than in worldly good.
For the foundation of the virtues (faḍāʼil, sg.
It is the means to the kindling and acquisition of the virtues (faḍāʼil, sing.
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The virtues, acquired by jihād or striving in this world, which determine both a soul's destination and its eligibility for the reward Paul describes.
So the souls that have acquired the virtues by striving in this world set out for the Paradise [55] from which Ādam was driven out, and walk proudly with the separate intellects (*al-ʻuqūl al-mujarradah*);
« No eye has seen it, no ear has heard it, nor has it crossed the thought of man — that which has been prepared for the good possessors of the virtues » (2).
On Moral Ends
The distinction between innate, involuntary mental excellences (talent, memory) and the true, voluntary virtues (prudence, temperance, fortitude, justice) born from reason.
So it will come about that the virtue of the mind is set before the virtue of the body, and that the voluntary virtues of the mind surpass the involuntary — which indeed are properly called virtues, and much excel, because they are born from reason, than which there is nothing in man more divine.
But the other kind is of the great and true virtues, which we call voluntary, such as prudence, temperance, fortitude, justice, and the rest of the same kind.
Stromata
Ethical virtues, used as an example of things mutually implying and jointly causing an outcome.
So too the virtues are causes to one another of not being separated, on account of their mutual implication;
Of being happy, at least, being one thing, the virtues, being many, are causes;