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The Four Cardinal Virtues
Josef Pieper
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Description for The Four Cardinal Virtues
Paperback. Num Pages: 219 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 334.
In The Four Cardinal Virtues, Joseph Pieper delivers a stimulating quartet of essays on the four cardinal virtues. He demonstrates the unsound overvaluation of moderation that has made contemporary morality a hollow convention and points out the true significance of the Christian virtues.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1966
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268001032
SKU
V9780268001032
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Ref
99-23
About Josef Pieper
Josef Pieper (1904-1997) was a distinguished twentieth-century Thomist philosopher. Schooled in the Greek classics and in the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, he studied philosophy, law, and sociology, and taught for many years at the University of Münster, Germany.
Reviews for The Four Cardinal Virtues
“Dr. Pieper, with his grounding in Scholastic thinking, especially Thomas Aquinas, brings to the reader an interpretation of this classical tradition that has things to say about the human person today. He attempts to make what could become a list of requirements for ethical behavior into a human quest for the wisdom that enables one to become the kind of ... Read more