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Spiritual Steps on Sustainable Living Abbot Christopher Jamison OSB. Metaphysics of Climate Change aim is to explore what else we need in order to counter the environmental degradation that confronts us. fortitude. fortitude. justice. justice. temperance. temperance. prudence. prudence.
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Spiritual Steps on Sustainable Living Abbot Christopher Jamison OSB
Metaphysics of Climate Change • aim is to explore what else we need in order to counter the environmental degradation that confronts us
The key point to note, however, is that the tradition of the virtues • insists that all the virtues are operative at the same time.
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fortitude temperance justice prudence