Virtue and Vice

Berkeley, Wednesday, February 18, 2026 1:06 PM

This blog could be time consuming. An important aspect to reflect is that one must always be aware to not lie to the self, or to anyone in general.

So, then what is the purpose of writing in the blog? Is it industrious?

[I opened my email briefly]

But if one does not write, first that learning might not be hold in the memory. Some folks might work differently. But I like to recall learned things, and then keep learning more. Of course, I need to be strategic with the use of time.

Second, and it is often an internal discussion. For who this is written? One cannot use the highly word in vain. It could be one purpose. I can write thousands of essay pages in google docs, word docs files printed in the hard disk, random pages in journals. Orden is important, in each of the pages in order to be found. So then order informs the topic, one might be writing. Well, one continue to be exposed to one thing or another because we live in community.

OK. Here are some learned lessons from the talk.

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What is virtue?

What are the cardinal virtues?

What is temptation?

Does free will allow us to fall into temptation/

How do I achieve my selfmastery?

Saints has competed between virtue and vice. In choosing to do good, became stronger and stronger in their choices. Vice can lead one to the point to not care or not fight anymore.

What is love? God is love.

Some references: Back to virtue by Peter Kreeft.

Abolition of Man by CS Lewis.

Fulton Sheen. No specific reference.

Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Put in prayer each vice, each temptation, each situation.

Consult often with a Spiritual Director.

It is always good to be accountable. Another thing, and I might be going off now on my own, but part also in synchrony to what A.C. said. Probably, more virtuous are applied in a place where more vices are. I recall that the area of Umbria has provided several saints. Probably, Lombardia as well. I recall reading that in part was due to liberation or I do not know other word proliferation of some sins.

Might be the giant figures, Saints, in the 1500s, from Spain was the same. It was a time of power and money in Spain. But also the time that a renewal of saintification came. i.e. religious without shoes or discalced.

What humility is? What is organic?

Put things in prayer to the Lord. Some things of consistently talking to the Lord can be explained from Tevye, even if that is fiction.

But always keep the Lord present in all your works.