正義，智慧（謹慎）勇氣（堅韌）和溫和（自我控製，節製）

pov: 四個主要的美德 - 正義，智慧（謹慎），勇氣（堅韌）和溫和（自我控製，節製） - 不僅來自柏拉圖或希臘哲學（羅馬皇帝馬庫斯·奧裏利烏斯在第五冊中討論了這些：冥想中的第12節 並將它們視為一個人應該在自己的心中識別的“商品”，）= The four cardinal virtues – justice, wisdom (prudence), courage (fortitude), and moderation (self-control, temperance) – come not just from Plato or Greek philosophy (The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius discusses these in Book V:12 of Meditations and views them as the "goods" that a person should identify in one's own mind, )

Cardinal virtues

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An image personifying the four virtues (Ballet Comique de la Reine, 1582)

Four cardinal virtues were recognized in the Bible, Old Testament, classical antiquity and in traditional Christian theology:

• Prudence (φρ?νησις, phronēsis; Latin: prudentia; also Wisdom, Sophia, sapientia), the ability to discern the appropriate course of action to be taken in a given situation at the appropriate time.
• Courage (?νδρε?α, andreia; Latin: fortitudo): also termed fortitude, forbearance, strength, endurance, and the ability to confront fear, uncertainty, and intimidation
• Temperance (σωφροσ?νη, sōphrosynē; Latin: temperantia): also known as restraint, the practice of self-control, abstention, discretion, and moderation tempering the appetition. Sōphrosynē can also be translated as sound-mindedness.
• Justice (δικαιοσ?νη, dikaiosynē; Latin: iustitia): also considered as fairness, the most extensive and most important virtue;^[1] the Greek word also having the meaning righteousness

These principles derive initially from Plato in Republic Book IV, 426–435 (and see Protagoras 330b, which also includes piety (hosiotes)). Cicero expanded on them, and Ambrose, Augustine of Hippo, and Thomas Aquinas^[2] adapted them while expanding on the theological virtues.

The term cardinal comes from the Latin cardo (hinge);^[3] virtues are so called because they are regarded as the basic virtues required for a virtuous life. They also relate to the Quadrivium.

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Cicero discusses these further in De Officiis (I, V and following).

The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius discusses these in Book V:12 of Meditations and views them as the "goods" that a person should identify in one's own mind, as opposed to "wealth or things which conduce to luxury or prestige."^[5]

The cardinal virtues are listed in the Bible. The deuterocanonical book Wisdom of Solomon 8:7 reads, "She [Wisdom] teaches temperance, and prudence, and justice, and fortitude, which are such things as men can have nothing more profitable in life."

They are also found in the Biblical apocrypha. 4 Maccabees 1:18–19 relates: “Now the kinds of wisdom are right judgment, justice, courage, and self-control. Right judgment is supreme over all of these since by means of it reason rules over the emotions.”

Catholic moral philosophy drew from all of these sources when developing its thought on the virtues.