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

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

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

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

by Josef Pieper
$45.90
$45.90

Book 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.
ISBN9780268001032
Author Josef Pieper
PublisherUniversity of Notre Dame Press
GenreReligion & spirituality and Philosophy
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 1990
LanguageENG- English
Pages248
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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

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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.

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