Article — Vermeersch, Questions on Justice
Article I. Notions Concerning the Parts of Virtues
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20. The subjective parts, quasi-potential parts, and quasi-integral parts of a virtue are distinguished.
The subjective parts are the species into which a virtue is divided as a certain genus. Now, the species must participate univocally in the generic rationale, and they must differ from one another by the difference which is called specific.
The potential parts of a virtue are virtues in which the proper rationale of that virtue is present in some manner, but deficiently.
The quasi-integral parts of a virtue are those things which must be had together in order that a perfect act of the virtue be constituted. That act is composed of them, almost as a body is composed of matter and form.