ARTICLE 10

Whether there are any infused virtues in man.

1. Objections: It would seem that there are not.

 a. Natural virtue suffices    obj. 1 to 3, 13.

 b. Acquired virtue suffices    obj. 4, 7 to 10, 18.

 c. Not all virtues are infused   obj. 5, 6, 11.

 d. Since vices cannot be infused, neither

    can virtues.      obj. 12 and 17.

 e. The virtues, by their very nature,

    cannot be infused     obj. 14 to 16, 19.

2. On the contrary

 a. The authority of Scripture    1 and 2.

 b. Virtuous acts are meritorious, and

    merit is only from grace    3.

3. Body

 a. In man there are two types of good:

  (1) proportionate to his nature.

  (2) exceeding his nature: supernatural good.

 b. Just as man's first perfection, viz., his soul and its powers (which exceed matter) is received from God, so also his final perfection, viz., eternal happiness, is the immediate gift of God.

 c. In order to attain this supernatural end, man must have supernatural principles of operation, infused by God:

  (1) grace: which gives the soul a certain spiritual being.

  (2) the theological virtues: which order man's acts directly to God, man's supernatural end.

  (3) the other infused virtues: which perfect man's acts concerning the means to his end.