{"id":869,"date":"2009-05-20T18:43:58","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T22:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=869"},"modified":"2009-05-25T13:08:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T17:08:47","slug":"richard-of-st-victor-3-%e2%80%93-perfect-charity-must-be-directed-at-another-person-jt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/richard-of-st-victor-3-%e2%80%93-perfect-charity-must-be-directed-at-another-person-jt\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard of St. Victor 3 \u2013 Perfect charity must be directed at another person (JT)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\u201cSteven,
\u201cSteven, let\u2019s look over there and pretend like we don\u2019t see that floating head.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

STAGE 2. In this stage, Richard tries to show that perfect charity must be directed at another person. Here\u2019s the quotation:<\/p>\n

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\u2018no one is properly said to have charity on the basis of his own private love of himself. And so it is necessary for love to be directed toward another for it to be charity\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The idea here seems to be that charity is a disposition to love another (in a particular way, though I don\u2019t know what that particular way is, so I\u2019ll leave it undefined here). However, in order for charity to be perfect, it seems to require two things.<\/p>\n

First, it must be manifested<\/em> or realized<\/em> in order to be perfect. That is, someone with a charitable disposition is not perfect unless they actually act charitably. So<\/p>\n

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(T4)\tFor any person x<\/em>, if x<\/em> has a charitable disposition P<\/em>, x<\/em> is not perfect if x<\/em> does not exercise P<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Second, a charitable disposition cannot be exercised perfectly unless one directs it to a distinct person<\/em>. In other words, one cannot exercise charity on themselves and be perfect. So:<\/p>\n

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(T5)\tFor any person x<\/em>, if x<\/em> has a charitable disposition P<\/em>, x<\/em> is not perfect if x<\/em> does not exercise P<\/em> on some person y<\/em>, where x<\/em> is not identical to y<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

T4 and T5 identify two necessary conditions for charity to be perfectly realized: it must be exercised, and it must be exercised on another person. But these two conditionts are not sufficient for charity to be perfect. There\u2019s still a third condition that must be satisfied too, but that comes up in the next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

STAGE 2. In this stage, Richard tries to show that perfect charity must be directed at another person. Here\u2019s the quotation: \u2018no one is properly said to have charity on the basis of his own private love of himself. And so it is necessary for love to be directed toward another for it to be… Read More »Richard of St. Victor 3 \u2013 Perfect charity must be directed at another person (JT)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,14,8,5,9,13,3],"tags":[40,41,22],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-complaints","category-heresy-orthodoxy","category-history","category-linkage","category-modalism","category-philosophy","category-theologians","category-theories","tag-richard-of-st-victor","tag-social-trinitarianism","tag-trinity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}