This book presents 28 different virtues and reveals, through stories that personify these virtues, how love is expressed through care, courage, compassion, faith, hope, justice, prudence, temperance, wisdom, and others.
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excellent blend of literature and biographies,
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This a perfect combination of stories describing lives that personify each virtue with philosophical discussions on what each virtue has come to mean in western culture. There is a great emphasis on philosophical influences from Aquinas, Augustine, and other well respected figures. This a tremendous launching pad to understanding how virtues apply to our own life and the fruit they bear in interactions with others.
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Heart of Virtue - nice book!,
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I am one of Professor DeMarcos many Philosophy students at the University of Waterloo/Ontario. This book is actually a very nice book to read and to own; it has a lot of beautiful and interesting stories and it is a valuable "Bildungsroman". I finally have a list of all the virtues + their explanations and good examples. The links to Christianity or religion related stories are really good. Could it be that spiritual or religious people have more virtues than others or is that again a matter of belief? Not many philosophers believe in God, or am I wrong?
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IT IS NOT POSSIBLE to improve either our personal lives or our society apart from acquiring virtue. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Thomas Aquinas, William Shakespeare, Notre Dame, Thomas More, Padre Pio, Summa Theologiae, Walker Percy, Anthony Burgess, Garden City, Los Angeles, Saint Thomas, Simone Weil, Victor Hugo, World War, Catholic Church, Father Josef, Karol Wojtyla, Random House, United States, Frederick William, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Henrik Ibsen, Karl Schmidt, King Henry New!
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IT IS NOT POSSIBLE to improve either our personal lives or our society apart from acquiring virtue. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Thomas Aquinas, William Shakespeare, Notre Dame, Thomas More, Padre Pio, Summa Theologiae, Walker Percy, Anthony Burgess, Garden City, Los Angeles, Saint Thomas, Simone Weil, Victor Hugo, World War, Catholic Church, Father Josef, Karol Wojtyla, Random House, United States, Frederick William, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Henrik Ibsen, Karl Schmidt, King Henry New!
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- Summa Theologiae by St.Thomas Aquinas on 10 pages
- Summa Theologiae: Volume 2, Existence and Nature of God: 1a. 2-11 (Summa Theologiae (Cambridge University Press)) by Thomas Aquinas on 10 pages
- The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri on 4 pages
- Divine Comedy (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri on 4 pages
- Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 69 by Roger Matuz on page 8 (1), page 8 (2), and page 10
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- Character Is Destiny: The Value of Personal Ethics in Everyday Life by Russell Gough in Back Matter
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