Four Cardinal Virtues, The: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge - Softcover

Pieper, Josef

 
9780268001032: Four Cardinal Virtues, The: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge

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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.

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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.

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