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Josef Pieper
Josef Pieper wrote philosophical books that explored the cardinal virtues, love, and the ways by which human beings understood truth. The cardinal virtues are prudence, justice, courage, and temperance. Much of his work was an exploration of Thomas Aquinas's philosophy. Pieper believed the natural world will reveal its truth if one has the proper attitude toward the divine. He died on Nov 6, 1997.See the full content of this document
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A philospher of virtue.
On November 6, 1997, the German Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper died at the age of ninety-three. Hearing that news reminded me of the first time I read his work. In a graduate course I had been assigned to read some sections on the virtues from the Summa Theologica and then, in addition, to read Pieper's The Four Cardinal Virtues. Duti...
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