Pieper, Preface, Four Cardinal Virtues—Why this “certain medieval writer,” Thomas Aquinas?
In the Preface to Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper explains his attention to the “doctrine of virtue.” He notes the unselfconscious way in which the virtues supplied a framework for ethical speculation in the emergence and continued tradition of Western thought. Pieper describes the intellectual framework supplied by the four cardinal virtues as “one of the […]
