"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
has long instructed us in these realities that need to be
made operative in each life as it touches all else 'that
is', as Pieper himself often puts it."
ù James V.
Schall, S.J., Georgetown University
"A fine and
thought provoking examination of the relationship between
the mind, heart, and moral life of the human person."
ù John Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of New York
"Pieper's sentences are admirably constructed and his
ideas are expressed with maximum clarity. He restores to
philosophy what common sense obstinately tells us ought to
be found there: wisdom and insight."
ù T. S.
Eliot