Virtues and Their Vices

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ID10691104
AuthorsHoward J Curzer (0000-0001-5006-8992, Texas Tech University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume65
Issue258
Pages108-113
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/pq/pqu061
OpenAlexW2043670743
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited1

Despite its high price, Virtues and Their Vices is a bargain because it is (figuratively) two books in one. The two volumes differ in content, tone, and degree of coherence. Along with a common binding, the two volumes share a clearly written, helpful introduction, and a thorough index. Each essay has its own bibliography. Volume I consists of essays on the four cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance), the three theological virtues (faith, hope, charity), and the seven capital vices plus their corresponding corrective virtues (lust/chastity, gluttony/abstinence, avarice/liberality, sloth/love, vicious/virtuous anger, envy/love and humility, pride/humility). Pope's essay on virtue and theology which discusses all three theological virtues arguably belongs with these fourteen essays, for it shares their tone and content. Most of these essays present Aquinas’ view of a virtue and/or vice, phrased in modern terms, and explicated not only via Aquinas, but also via other thinker(s) within the Catholic tradition.

Contempt · Epistemology · Faith · Humility · Lust · Theology · Tone (literature) · Virtue · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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