Question — Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V · from Schola Thomistica
Question II: Whether joy is a virtue
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That it is NOT a virtue, D. Thomas shows in the cited article, from the enumeration of the parts.
NON esse virtutem, ostendit D. Thomas art. cit. e partium enumeratione.
It is PROVED from S. Thom., because Joy is not an operative habit, but is an act toward which the habit inclines, which is called Charity. For the same habit inclines to loving, to desiring the beloved, and to rejoicing in him; and therefore the habit of Joy is not distinct from the habit of Charity, because every virtue rejoices in exercising its acts, as D. Bonaventure teaches, 3. dist. 26. quaest. 2. ad 4.; but it agrees especially with Charity, which has for its object the good, insofar as the good delights through the habit.
PROBATUR a S. Thom. quia Gaudium non est habitus operativus, sed est actus ad quem inclinat habitus, qui dicitur: Charitas. Idem enim habitus inclinat ad diligendum, ad desiderandum dilectum, et ad gaudendum de eo; et ideo ab habitu Charitatis non est distinctus habitus, quia omnis virtus Gaudet in suis actibus exercendis, ut docet D. Bonavent. 3. dist. 26. quaest. 2. ad 4. maxime vero convenit Charitati, quae habet pro obiecto bonum, ut bonum per habitum delectat.