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The Ordinatio of John Duns Scotus
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Ordinatio. Book 3. Distinctions 26 - 40.
Book 3. Distinctions 26 - 40
Thirty Fourth Distinction
Single Question. Whether Virtues, Gifts, Beatitudes, and Fruits are the Same Habit as Each Other
I. To the Question
B. Opinion of Bonaventure

B. Opinion of Bonaventure

20. [Statement of the opinion] - Another opinion says it is the case that the virtues make one to act rightly, the gifts to act perfectly, and the beatitudes to act expeditiously.

21. [Rejection of the opinion] - Against this view: by one and the same virtue I act rightly (because virtue is the rightness of power [Ethics 2.6.1106b36-07a2, 6.13.1144b27]), and act expeditiously (because virtue is a habit that makes one act expeditiously and easily [I d.17 n.7, 48-51]), and act perfectly (because virtue is both the perfection of him who possesses it in himself and the perfection by which his work is rendered perfect [Ethics 2.5.1106a15-17]).