Catholic Reading Plan

The Four Cardinal Virtues

Josef Pieper

Pieper explores prudence, justice, courage, and temperance as habits of a good life, bringing classical philosophy into conversation with Christian thought.

Ethics & Everyday Life

Original date: 1965 (collected English volume)

Reading level: Intermediate

Reading guides

Source notes & edition details

Bishop Robert Barron
Named in the published reading list; editions may differ.

Brandon Vogt
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Taylor Marshall
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virtue moral life character

Bibliographic references

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Original catalog editions

University of Notre Dame Press (2016), Edition: 1, 208 pages
The Four Cardinal Virtues