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As part of religion this year I am planning on teaching virtues as the Catechism lists them, Cardinal, Theological, Capital, etc.
We are also studying American History and one of the parts that came with it is a character study with a character trait and person from American history as an example for each week. So great, all laid out for me.
So I started trying to work this resource in with my Catholic virtue study and the names don't correspond in any way to any Catholic virtue list I can find.
Can anyone tell me if you have studied the virtues according to the Church's framework and how you went about it? I had considered making some type of notebook we could add to through the years with this framework but, it's so complicated.
Before I selected this curriculum I was considering the PACE program but the 10 virtues in the book don't easily fit with the framework either.
I had envisioned this being the base of the other subjects we study and would really like to make it work. I am hoping someone has done this before and could offer some ideas.
God Bless,
Barb
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Barb,
The Catholic virtues you listed above are really categories of virtues. For instance, the Theological Virtues are the supernatural virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love, and are infused by God at Baptism. There are also natural virtues of faith, hope, and love. The Cardinal virtues (also known as the moral virtues) are prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. They are called "cardinal" for the Latin word "cardo", meaning "hinge". The idea is that they are the hinges on which the other virtues "hang", as it were. So, for example, fortitude might include such virtues as courage or perseverance, while temperance encompasses self-control, self-discipline, and so on. The Capital virtues are such things as humility, brotherly love, meekness, etc. See this for lots more info. I'm pretty sure you could take the virtues you have in your American History curriculum, and identify them with the corresponding Catholic virtues. It should be possible to work "backwards" to the bigger categories. For instance, if the virtue in the curriculum is self-discipline, this falls under the Cardinal virtue of temperance and then you could learn all the cardinal virtues, what a cardinal virtue is, and so on. Positive character qualities like attentiveness could be related to the underlying virtue. In this case, being attentive to people could relate to the theological virtue of charity or the capital virtue of brotherly love; being attentive to the details of work might be related to the capital virtue of diligence.
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Great question Barb!
stellamaris wrote:
| I'm pretty sure you could take the virtues you have in your American History curriculum, and identify them with the corresponding Catholic virtues. It should be possible to work "backwards" to the bigger categories. For instance, if the virtue in the curriculum is self-discipline, this falls under the Cardinal virtue of temperance |
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Caroline gave you such a great answer that she reminded me of a page which would help you to work "backward."
Second Part of the Second Part
St. Thomas puts the little virtues under the big virtue titles. Here's another example studiousness
When reading St. Thomas, I just skip all the beginning parts and center on the
"I answer that"
portion.
He poses the contrary arguments to rebut them. (Am I speaking English? Sometimes I wonder  )
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St. Thomas is a special interest of mine. Thanks for the link; that's a great summary of the relationship of the virtues! For anyone else who would love to dig more deeply into St. Thomas's teachings on the virtues (and everything else included in the Summa), I recommend highly the four-volume commentary set by Walter Farrell entitled A Companion to the Summa. It's a long but accessible commentary written in a style reminiscent of C.S. Lewis by a knowledge Dominican.
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Caroline and Helen,
Thanks so much for this info. I think you are right, I have been trying and trying to work the virtues in when maybe working backwards will be better. After I get the kiddos to sleep I am going to sit down and go through the links like you suggest.
One of my older sons is home on break from college and when I showed him your answers he pulled out the Summa Theologiae, so maybe together we can do this. And it looks like we're getting our money's worth at college, too! ; )
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Babs wrote:
| One of my older sons is home on break from college and when I showed him your answers he pulled out the Summa Theologiae, so maybe together we can do this. And it looks like we're getting our money's worth at college, too! ; ) |
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That sounds like fun!
I'm going to link to the Real Learning thread Let's talk about habits. In Jennifer's (Mackfam) post on June 20th, she offers a review of several children books on virtue.
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stellamaris wrote:
| For anyone else who would love to dig more deeply into St. Thomas's teachings on the virtues (and everything else included in the Summa), I recommend highly the four-volume commentary set by Walter Farrell entitled A Companion to the Summa. It's a long but accessible commentary written in a style reminiscent of C.S. Lewis by a knowledge Dominican. |
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Caroline, I'm always recommending that 4 volume set (I got a beat up used copy), but I usually get big ???? when I do. Glad to see I'm not alone.... 
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