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Brief Summary Morality is seeking to know how to act and this act that we perform should be for our good and for the good for those around us. For morality, a perfect good is happiness so morality asks the question “what makes us happy?” For many today, happiness comes in the tangible and temporal things Wealth, power, honor, etc. Christian morality however seeks out higher ground, it looks beyond this existence and transcends our happiness in God
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Brief Summary To obtain this happiness which is found in God, we need to mirror Christ who shows us what it means “to be like” God We do this in many ways but one of the fundamental means by which we accomplish this is living out the virtues Prudence, Temperance, Fortitude, Justice
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Humility as the connector To live a virtuous life so to become like God (which ultimately means we will be with God) is to begin with humility Without humility the virtues cannot be rightly practiced nor human dignity truthfully affirmed nor virtuous deed authentically accomplished
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What is Humility? Humility is rooted in gentleness, quietness, benevolence, nonaggression, modesty, etc. Real humility has nothing to do with creating a low self-image or making ourselves feel guilty One way humility is practiced is recognizing the talents we possess are gifts from God These gifts are entrusted to us so to share to others So Humility in a lot of ways has nothing do with me but my relation to others
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What is Humility Humility is being thankful for others and practicing love toward them; seeing the importance of every single life. So in a deeper sense which connects us with chapter one, humility means honoring the divine image To know who we are compared to God and to understand that we are made for God, we can start knowing how to act
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