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In The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef 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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You Really Need Both Books,
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This review is from: Four Cardinal Virtues: Theology (Paperback)
I first came into contact with this work because it was a required text for my seminary class on ethics. Pieper is a first rate German philosopher and expert on the works of St. Thomas Aquinas. If you study this book, The Four Cardinal Virtues (fortitude, temperance, justice, and prudence), along with his other book, Faith, Hope, Love (the three theological virtues), you will have a wonderful primer on ethics. One word of warning. Philosophy is not light reading. I know, it was one of my majors. Philosophy written in German and translated into English produces a book not for the timid. If you are willing to take on the challenge, more power to you. It is worth the effort, but you should know what you are getting into before you put down your money. This is a book for those who want to think and wrestle with ethics. It is not for everyone.
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I read this book over and over again. Pieper is a great antidote to the vagueness of some modern Catholic writers who tend to use a feel-good approach to virtue and write vaguely about sharing, caring, and being nice to people. This book tells you what the virtues really are and what they have meant to the Church for two thousand years.
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Good worked through analysis of the cardinal virtues,
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This review is from: Four Cardinal Virtues: Theology (Paperback)
This collection of works on the four cardinal virtues brings out the classical meanings of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance. It also clearly explains the vices surrounding the virtues. It is a clear summary of classical thought on the virtues from Aristolte, Plato, Augustine and Aquinas. Very interesting digrestions on prudence and fortitude.
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