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Questions:
1. According to Aquinas, avarice can be defined in two ways: (i) generally and (ii) specifically. What is the general definition of avarice? What is the specific definition?
2. According to Aquinas avarice can be contrary to two virtues. Identify these two virtues and explain how avarice is contrary to them. The best answers will use examples.
3. According to Aquinas, is avarice mortal or venial by reason of its kind? Under what circumstances is it mortal? Under what circumstances is it venial?
4. Explain and provide examples of the following daughter vices: (i) lack of humanity, and (ii) restlessness.
5. What does DeYoung mean when she says that the virtue of generosity is about "freedom"?
6. Why, according to DeYoung and Aquinas, do we think wealth provides self-sufficiency? Why is this a mistaken view?
7. According to DeYoung, what place does luxury have in our lives?
8. Describe two practices, either from DeYoung or Remedies for the Capital Vices, that are recommended for countering avarice. How does each practice work to correct this vice? Do they seek to cure the root cause or just its symptoms? Why?
9. Explain Fairlie's claim that "Avarice is, not so much the love of possessions, as the love merely of possessing."
10. Explain the difference between the "wine snob" and the "label snob." Which vice does each represent?
11. Why and how, according to Fairlie, does avarice lead to "self-annihilation"?
12. Why, according to Fairlie, is avarice a "form of solitude"?
13. Fairlie claims that both a miser and a prodigal can display the sin of avarice. How so? Do you agree? Why or why not?
14. Drawing upon Aquinas, DeYoung, Fairlie, and our previous readings on pride, what do you think is the root cause of avarice?
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