A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart

by Josef Pieper

Book Overview

"Josef Pieper's account of the centrality and meaning of the virtues is a needed primer to teach us exactly the meaning and relationship of the virtues and how they relate to the faith and its own special virtues. Pieper's attention is ever to the particular virtue, its precise meaning, and to its contribution to the wholeness that constituted an ordered, active, and truthful human life. No better brief account of the virtues can be found. Pieper...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898703034
• ISBN13: 9780898703030
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.8" x 7.3"