Description
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.
Author: Josef Pieper
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 03/31/1990
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780268001032
ISBN10: 0268001030
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Philosophy | Religious
- Religion | Ethics
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.