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16th-century Dutch-Flemish Renaissance master Brueghel the Elder strikingly painted all seven deadly sins, as did American painter Paul Cadmus some 400 years later. Pride is sometimes referred to as vanity or. Many great works of literature have explored the seven deadly sins, including Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Dante’s Purgatorio, and Edmund Spenser’s The Fairie Queene. Originating in Christian theology, the seven deadly sins are pride, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, sloth, and wrath. Despite memory's obvious benefits, it can also let us down, said Daniel Schacter, PhD, longtime memory researcher and chair of Harvard University's psychology department, at an APA 2003 Annual Convention session honoring the publication of his book, 'The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers' (Houghton Mifflin, 2001). The seven deadly sins also have counterparts, the seven heavenly virtues: humility (opposed to pride), kindness (envy), temperance (gluttony), charity (greed), chastity (lust), diligence (sloth), and patience (wrath). The seven deadly sins are also called cardinal sins, with cardinal meaning “fundamental” and echoing capital’s sense of causation. A “deadly” sin thus suggests a grave and destructive act. A capital crime or punishment, for instance, involved the loss of life, or the head, metaphorically. The head leads the body as the capital vices, chief among them pride and greed, lead to further immorality.Ībout a century after Aquinas published Summa Theologica, capital meant “deadly” in English. In his influential 13th-century text Summa Theologica, Christian theologian Thomas Aquinas further expounded on the seven deadly sins, which he called “capital vices.” To Aquinas, the seven deadly sins were the cause of all other offenses: “In this way a capital vice is one from which other vices arise.” Capital comes from the Latin caput, “head,” Aquinas explains.
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Broadly speaking, the seven deadly sins function as ethical guidelines. For his list, Gregory drew from the ideas of Evargius Ponticus, a fourth century Christian monk who identified eight evils humans should resist.
#THE 7 SINS SERIES#
While the concept of an inventory of moral offenses has roots in antiquity, Pope Gregory I first enumerated the seven deadly sins in the late sixth century. Episodes in this Series Pride Envy Anger Sloth Greed Gluttony Lust Never miss an episode Subscribe today and well deliver Groundwork directly to your.