Values Education Lesson

1. Temperanc
eRon Canlas & Mystie Suzuki

2. Temperance
• Moderates the desire for pleasure
• includes all virtues, especially humility, that
restrain the ordinate movements of our desires
or appetite

3. Temperance
Classes:
• Abstinence
• Chastity
• Modesty
• Humility
• Prudence
• Self-regulation
• Forgiveness and mercy
Note:
Each of these involves restraining
some impulse, such as:
• Sexual Desire
• Vanity
• Anger

4. Etymology
• Temperaunce (self-restraint, Moderation)– from Anglo-
French. Mid 14C
• Temperantia (moderation) – from Latin. Mid 13C. from
temperans, present participle of temperare "to moderate“
• Latin temperantia was used by Cicero to translate
Greek sophrosyne "moderation."
• In English, temperance was used to render Latin
continentia or abstinentia, specifically in
reference to drinking alcohol and eating; hence by early 1800s it had
come to mean "abstinence from alcoholic drink."

5. Cardinal Values
1. Prudence - able to judge between actions with regard to
appropriate actions at a given time.
2. Justice - proper moderation between self-interest and the
right and needs of thers
3. Temperance - practicing self-control, abstention ,and
moderation
4. Fortitude - forbearance ,endurance and ability to confront
fear and uncertainty or intimidation.

6. Parts of Temperance

7. Part 1 : Abstinence and Sobriety
A) Abstinence – indicates a cutting backof food for bearance
from any indulgence of appetite
B) Sobriety – for the matter of drink
• Fasting – is not only a religious requirement,but also has a
basis in natural law. The principal purpose of fasting is to bridle the
lusts of flesh.
“it makes no difference whatever to virtue what or how much food a man
as long as he does it with due regard for the people among whom he
lives, for his own person, and for the requirements of his health; but it
matters how uncomplainingly he does without food when bound by duty or
necessity to abstain.”
-Augustine Thomas

8. Part 2 : Chastity
• it is connected with the reproductive faculty; and
in regard of these there is, concerned with the
primary pleasure of the act of reproduction.

9. Part 3 : Modesty
• it is about the
attendant
circumstances of
pleasure in kisses,
touches and
embraces.

10. Glutonny
• It is of course is vice versa against temperance.
• Principally this vice versa regards not the quantity, but the desire for
food and drink, a desire that is outside the order of reason.
“The glutton does not eat in order that he may
live rather he has recognized his life in such a way
that he now lives primarily to eat. In ordinate desire
for food and drink gives rise to a most of offspring.”

11. Continence
• the practice of continence is very
important for the emotional
development of the human person.
• It is the part of temperance
whereby a person resists evil
desires.
• It belongs to temperance to
moderate the desires of the
pleasure of touch, whereas it
belongs to sentience to resist evil
desires.

12. Quotes
“I neither drink nor smoke,
because my schoolmaster
impressed upon me three
cardinal virtues; cleanliness in
person, cleanliness in mind;
temperance.”
-John Burns
“Temperance is a mean with
regard to pleasure”
-Aristotle
“Temperance is moderation in
the things that are good and
total abstinence from the
things that are foul.”
-Frances E. Willard
“Temperance is simply a
disposition of the mind which
binds the passion.”
-Thomas Aquinas
“For Pleasure, Delight, Peace
and Felicity live in method and
temperance.”
-Margaret Cavendish
“Taste every fruit of every tree
in the garden at least once. It
is an insult to creation not to
experience it fully.
Temperance is wickedness.”
Stephen Fry
“The ingredients of health and
long life, are great
temperance, open air, easy
labor, and little care.”
-Philip Sidney

13. Bible Quotes
Romans 12: 1-2
“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the
mercies of God, to present your bodies as
a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to
God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not
be conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewal of your mind,
that by testing you may discern what is the
will of God, what is good and acceptable
and perfect.”
Romans 13:14
“But put on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and make no provision for the
flesh, to gratify its desires.”
Titus 1:7
“For an overseer, as God's steward, must
be above reproach. He must not be
arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard
or violent or greedy for gain,”
Titus 2:12
“training us to renounce ungodliness and
worldly passions, and to live self-
controlled, upright, and godly lives in the
present age,”
1 Peter 5:8
“Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your
adversary the devil prowls around like a
roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.”
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
“Do you not know that you are God's
temple and that God's Spirit dwells in
you? If anyone destroys God's temple,
God will destroy him. For God's temple
is holy, and you are that temple.”

14. Moral Issues