- Whether magnificence is a part of fortitude?
Whether magnificence is a part of fortitude?
Objections
❌ Objection 1 : It seems that magnificence is not a part of fortitude. For magnificence agrees in matter with liberality, as stated above (Article [3]). But liberality is a part, not of fortitude, but of justice. Therefore magnificence is not a part of fortitude.
❌ Objection 2 : Further, fortitude is about fear and darings. But magnificence seems to have nothing to do with fear, but only with expenditure, which is a kind of action. Therefore magnificence seems to pertain to justice, which is about actions, rather than to fortitude.
❌ Objection 3 : Further, the Philosopher says (Ethic. iv, 2) that "the magnificent man is like the man of science." Now science has more in common with prudence than with fortitude. Therefore magnificence should not be reckoned a part of fortitude.