Josef Pieper

Fortitude and Temperance

Pantheon, 1954. 8vo, green buckram cloth, black titles, 128pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (3.00) mildly toned to panels. Contents clean, binding firm. The first in a series of short works on the four cardinal virtues as presented by Thomas Aquinas, later collected in one volume. The order of publication followed in the opposite ranking of the four virtues; fortitude and temperance as third and fourth order, being the ‘regulating virtues’ to prudence and justice. A nice copy. Fine / Fine.

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