Josef Pieper
German Catholic philosopher and writer (Thomist) known for works on virtue ethics, moral philosophy and the philosophy of culture, including Leisure, the Basis of Culture and The Four Cardinal Virtues.
Books
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1. Las Virtudes Fundamentales
A concise, philosophically grounded exploration of the four cardinal virtues—prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance—tracing their Aristotelian-Thomistic roots and showing how they function as stable dispositions that order reason and desire toward the human good. The work emphasizes prudence as the formative virtue guiding concrete moral choices, treats justice as giving others their due, and presents fortitude and temperance as the virtues that steady courage and moderate appetite, arguing that these fundamental virtues are the foundation of moral life and human flourishing when integrated with contemplative insight.
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2. Virtudes Fundamentais
A concise, philosophically grounded exploration of the four classical cardinal virtues—prudence, justice, fortitude (courage) and temperance—tracing their roots in Greek moral thought and their maturation in Christian theology; the book presents virtues as stable habits that shape character and enable human flourishing, explains how prudence orders and coordinates the other virtues, and argues that these moral capacities are essential both for personal integrity and for the health of social and political life.
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