 The full flowering of virtue is found in the moral ideal Descartes calls “generosity” (générosité), which he describes as “the key to all the other virtues” (art. 161; CSM I 388). Generosity begins as a passion, prompted by thoughts of the nature of free will and the many advantages that follow from its correct use and the many cares that follow from its misuse. Repetition of these thoughts and of the consequent passion produces the virtue of generosity, which is a “habit” of the soul (art. 161; CSM I 387). This habit, “true generosity,” has two components, one intellectual, the other volitional: “The first consists in [a person’s] knowing that nothing truly belongs to him but this freedom to dispose his volitions, and that he ought to be praised or blamed for no other reason than his using this freedom well or badly. The second consists in his feeling within himself a firm and constant resolution to use it well—that is, never to lack the will to undertake and carry out whatever he judges to be best. To do that is to follow virtue perfectly” (art. 153; AT XI 445—6/ CSM I 384). (For further discussion, see Normore 2019; Parvizian 2016; Rodis-Lewis 1987; Shapiro 1999, 2005.)