The Four Cardinal Virtues

✍ Scribed by Josef Pieper

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 208
• Edition: Paperback
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

InThe 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.

Translations originally published as three books: Fortitude and Temperance translated by Daniel F. Coogan (1954); Justice translated by Lawrence E. Lynch (1955); and Prudence translated by Richard and Clara Winston (1959).