Four Cardinal Virtues

In this stimulating quartet of essays on the four cardinal virtues, Josef Pieper demonstrates the unsound over-valuation of moderation that has reduced contemporary morality to a set of hollow conventions. He points out the true significance of the Christian virtues that can and should make morality a dynamic way of life. Pieper dismantles pragmatic and puritanical concepts about virtue and morality and sounds an important warning: unless we regain the true essence of the cardinal virtues, we are headed towards moral anarchy.