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The Four Cardinal Virtues

by Josef Pieper · 1966

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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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religionreligionMore like thisLess of thisChristianChristianMore like thisLess of thisspiritualityspiritualityMore like thisLess of thismoralitymoralityMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 208 pages

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