Anthropology of Integration

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This section outlines the new approach to virtue in anthropology of integration. Aristotle saw virtues as features of the good man or model citizen. St Thomas Aquinas focused on habits that ensure the proper functioning of the main powers or appetites in man. Anthropology of Integration looks at virtue from the perspective of a model of the human person as an entity in three dimensions – biological, emotional and spiritual. The overall good of the human person lies in the proper integration of these dimensions which occurs in two ways. First there is upward or cognitive integration where the the fundamental values are grasped and adhered to. Then there is downward or formative integration where these values shape the cultivation of habits related to the fundamental values. The most important virtues are those more directly connected to the fundamental values, which is to say, the end of the human person.

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Anthropology of IntegrationBy Fr. Mark Georges