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40 scenario-based questions across the 10 sub-virtues of the Love branch. Answer honestly. Don't choose how you would like to react. What would you really do in these scenarios? This is about self-knowledge, not a test.
Hugh of St. Victor imagined the virtues as a living tree. Each Theological and Cardinal Virtue is a branch, and each branch bears sub-virtues like fruit. Compassion isn't separate from Love. It's what Love looks like when it moves the soul.
You're about to assess 10 sub-virtues that make up the Love branch of your virtue tree. Each one is a living part of how Love grows in your life.
Each sub-virtue lives on a spectrum between two extremes. Virtue and vice are not a dichotomy; virtue doesn't exist at the maximum. It is found at the mean: responding rightly without excess or deficiency. The goal of this assessment is not self-improvement as an end in itself. It's about knowing the strengths and weaknesses of our own moral character, and learning to live as we were meant to live, virtuously.
If you answer honestly, your results show where you are now. Virtue formation is a lifetime work. These results are only the beginning.
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This is 1 of 7 branches. Reveal your full virtue tree to see the whole picture. Here's where you stand across the 10 sub-virtues of Love.
"If we imagine moral character as a continuum... we find within it a fourfold division. On the end of extreme evil we have the vicious person, in whom reason and the will habitually follow the errant desires of the passions. Next we have the weak-willed individual, who still retains the correct judgment of good and evil, but he does not often follow the judgment, for he sides with his desires. Next we have the self-controlled individual, who has errant desires but resists them. Finally, we have the virtuous person, who follows reason both in his choices and in his desires."
— From Living the Good Life: A beginner's Thomistic Ethics [1] by Steven J. Jensen
Virtue is not a test you pass once. It's a living habit shaped over a lifetime. These results show where you are on that continuum right now, but they will change as you grow.
The podcast behind this assessment model. Weekly episodes on the virtue formation framework rooted in Aristotle, Aquinas, and Hugh of St. Victor. An episode exists for every sub-virtue in this assessment.
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