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The Four Cardinal Virtues Paperback – Download: Adobe Reader, March 31, 1966

by Josef Pieper (Author), Richard Winston (Translator), Clara Winston (Translator),
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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.

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“Dr. Pieper, with his grounding in Scholastic thinking, especially Thomas Aquinas, brings to the reader an interpretation of this classical tradition that has things to say about the human person today. He attempts to make what could become a list of requirements for ethical behavior into a human quest for the wisdom that enables one to become the kind of person one strives to be.” ―Studies in Formative Spirituality

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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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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0268001030
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Notre Dame Press; 1st edition (March 31, 1966)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780268001032
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0268001032
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
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Neri
5.0 out of 5 stars Don't let your enemies define you.
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2003
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Simply brilliant reading. Living naturally is what the crux of this book is all about.

The book delves into ethics, civics, justice, philosophy, psychology, and I think it is a healthy tool for understanding classical literature: Shakespeare, for example, and the inner psychology of his characters as this moral plain, that Pieper describes, is so much closer to his than most of what we hear in our modernity.

Pieper, here, spends time defining what the classic moral compass is, taken primarily from the last officially sanctioned church doctor St. Thomas Aquinas. Pieper brings Aquinas and other philosophers' language up to date, for the ears of the modern mind. Christianityfs definition has too much to do with how it's enemies, or alterior users, wish to define it and Pieper spends a short time correcting this in places.

If you liked this you might like Pieper's Virtues of the Human Heart which is a bit less discriptive but more powerful.

Pieper also makes the point that the most important stuggle is the internal struggle for meaning and direction in any organization or person.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2020
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Can't believe something this beautiful isn't shouted from the rooftops all over the world. No mamby pamby moralizing - teaches you to be a stone cold killer like the Saints of all time were.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Every Catholic needs this
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A must have for all students of Christianity
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BetterLateThanNever
5.0 out of 5 stars Everyone needs to advance in the practice of the four cardinal virtues
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2019
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Excellent works by one of the preeminent philosophers working in the Thomist tradition in the 20th century.
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4.0 out of 5 stars You Really Need Both Books
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2003
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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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Diane Bettesworth
5.0 out of 5 stars compounded by the inherent difficulties in rendering a good translation, but worthwhile for anyone interested in understanding .
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2015
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Some of it requires an effort to follow, compounded by the inherent difficulties in rendering a good translation, but worthwhile for anyone interested in understanding human behavior. . Pieper offers a number of startling insights. A book everyone should read at least once.
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Timothy F. Raczek
5.0 out of 5 stars Enlightening, Excellent, deep.
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2018
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This book definitively helped me on my spiritual journey. Some people may find this dry or deep but I found it enlightening.
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Daniel G Snyder
5.0 out of 5 stars Read this with the Summa
Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2017
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Great discussion especially for those familiar with the ethical tradition of Aristotle. Hard to find in the original Deutsch. Virtue- the true meritocracy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring and full of depth
Reviewed in Italy on January 13, 2018
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Absolutely brilliant book. Should be a required reading in modern psychology courses as it strikes right at the heart of what it means to be human.
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The Wanderer
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 20, 2013
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I know other reviewers bought this book for theology, but I bought for a course in virtue ethics from the philosophical perspective, and it was excellent for that. Pieper can be a very technical and highly detailed author but in this work and in the other works of his I have read he is never confusing or overly complicated unless he absolutely has to be. Like the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, this is a book I will come back to again and again in years to come.
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David P
5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 11, 2012
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I'm studying theology at the moment, and one of the tutors I really respect told me this was one of his favourite books. Having read it, I can agree - it's a brilliant book.
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Mrs. Louisa Miller
3.0 out of 5 stars Theology
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 26, 2012
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I have not read this book yet but will soon asa requirement for the course and h is usually very clear
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