| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
The correspondence of the mind and reality | Truth |
The activity of the soul in accordance with virtue | Happiness |
The acquired natural habit perfecting the practical intellect
| Prudence |
The act of potential qua potential | Motion |
The number of motion | Time |
The same thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect | First Principle of Reason (Speculative) |
The acquired natural habit perfecting the will | Justice |
What is last in execution is first in intention | The reason why there must be an absolutely final end |
A good quality of the mind, by which we live righteously, of which no one can make bad use, which God works in us, without us | St. Augustine's Definition of Virtue |
The science the object of which is the good for man (according to Aristotle) | Politics |
The unmediated intellectual apprehension of the divine essence | The Beatific Vision |
A habit that chooses the mean in regard to us, as that mean is determined by reason and understood by a wise man | Aristotle's Definition of Virtue |
An ordinance of reason for the common good formulated by him who has care of the entire community and promulgated | Law |
The good is to be pursued and evil is to be avoided | The first principle of practical reason |
The selection of means towards an end | Choice |
The principle of individuation in bodies | Matter |
The acquired natural habit perfecting the irascible appetite | Fortitude |
That at which all things aim | The Good |
The acquired natural habit perfecting the concupiscible appetite | Temperence |
Divinely favored/fortunate | Blessed |