Despite its non-Christian origins, the scheme of the cardinal virues found wide acceptance in medieval theology, philosophy and religious literature. This study investigates the history of the four virtues in the Latin Middle Ages from patristic times to the late 14th century.
Exploring the history of the cardinal virtues from patristic times to the late fourteenth century, this book offers a comprehensive view of the development of moral debate in the Latin Middle Ages
Virtues and their vices
Virtues and their vices
This is a comprehensive philosophical treatment of the virtues and their competing vices. The first four sections focus on historical classes of virtue: the cardinal virtues, the capital vices and the corrective virtues, intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues. A final…
Virtues and their vices
Virtues and Their Vices is the only extant contemporary, comprehensive treatment of specific virtues and, where applicable, their competing vices. Each of the essays ... not only locates discussion of that virtue in its historical context, but also advances the discussion and de…