Seven Deadly Sins

A traditional Christian classification of pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth as fundamental vices that can give rise to other wrongdoing.

Eight Evil Thoughts: A classification of eight tempting thoughts developed in early Christian monastic teaching. John Cassian’s eightfold scheme preceded the familiar seven and supplied much of its structure.
Evagrius Ponticus: A fourth-century Christian monk and theologian who organized eight recurring evil thoughts. His scheme is the earliest major source behind the later list.
Pride: An excessive estimation of oneself or one’s own importance. In many Christian accounts, pride is the root vice that turns the self against proper order.
Gluttony: Excessive consumption of food or drink. It gives the list a concrete example of appetite becoming excess.
Virtue: A stable disposition to act, feel, and choose well. The traditional framework pairs each vice with a virtue that counters it.
John Cassian: A fifth-century Christian monk whose writings transmitted Egyptian monastic teaching to the Latin West. His eight principal vices helped shape Western accounts of the sins.
Greed: An excessive desire to acquire or keep wealth and possessions. It shows how attachment to material goods becomes a persistent vice.
Purgatorio: The second canticle of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, depicting souls undergoing purification. Its mountain is organized around the purification of traits associated with the seven sins.
Vice: A settled disposition toward morally harmful conduct or character. The seven sins are a specific Christian catalogue within the broader idea of vice.
Pope Gregory I: The bishop of Rome from 590 to 604, influential in shaping medieval Christian teaching. Gregory helped establish the Latin tradition’s sevenfold arrangement.

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