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from Part III - The Conditions of Virtue Secundum Quid
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
The last aspect of our analysis of virtue secundum quid falls to determining its end and conditions.1 Before broaching the conditions that enable us to speak of the end of pagan virtue, we must briefly lay out some metaethical points. Chapter 6 revealed that virtue simpliciter’s end meant considering the perfect happiness of the one who has arrived at journey’s end, the status comprehensoris. Now we take up that sort of end that is had by the one on earth, the status viatoris. This agent is propelled on his journey by desire. Because a desire for the good in general is hardwired into the human agent and constitutes the catalyst of agency itself, we must begin by examining what Aquinas holds to be the metaethical connections between goodness, goods, desirability, and ends.
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