The Four Cardinal Virtues: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge / Edition 1

The Four Cardinal Virtues: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge / Edition 1

by Josef Pieper
ISBN-10:
0268001030
ISBN-13:
9780268001032
Pub. Date:
03/31/1990
Publisher:
University of Notre Dame Press
ISBN-10:
0268001030
ISBN-13:
9780268001032
Pub. Date:
03/31/1990
Publisher:
University of Notre Dame Press
The Four Cardinal Virtues: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge / Edition 1

The Four Cardinal Virtues: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge / Edition 1

by Josef Pieper
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Overview

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

ISBN-13: 9780268001032
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Publication date: 03/31/1990
Edition description: 1
Pages: 248
Sales rank: 380,776
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

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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