He wavers greatly at this stage, and in this respect his attitude is characteristic for all the schoolmen.
So again in passing from the general question of Virtue to the virtues, he puts several of the systems under contribution, as if not prepared to leave the guidance of Aristotle, but feeling at the same time the necessity of bridging over the distance between his position and Christian requirements.

Understanding Aristotle to make a co-ordinate division of virtues into Moral and Intellectual, he gives reasons for such a step.

Though virtue, he says, is not so much the perfecting of the operation of our faculties, as their employment by the will for good ends, it may be used in the first sense, and thus the intellectual virtues will be the habits of intelligence that procure the truest knowledge.

The well-known division of the cardinal virtues is his next theme; and it is established as complete and satisfactory by a twofold deduction.

But a still higher and more congenial view is immediately afterwards adopted from Plotinus.