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  • Temperance
    Marcel De Corte / Inez Fitzgerald Storck
    Temperance has faded from modern consciousness as a virtue, relegated, when it is mentioned at all, to moderation in food and drink or abstention from alcohol. The Belgian philosopher Marcel De Corte here reveals its whole content, basing his analysis on Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas. Temperance intervenes in all the ends of human life, and nearly every virtue has need of it...
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    12,23 €

  • Fortitude
    Marcel De Corte / Inez Fitzgerald Storck
    Insofar as the four cardinal virtues, prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance, fortitude, are remembered today, it is in a distorted and partial fashion. The term 'fortitude' today no longer refers to a virtue aimed at the common good and the proper reaction to evil, but rather a manner of imposing one’s will, and, at best, physical bravery in battle. In our times, the man...
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    12,20 €

  • Prudence
    Marcel De Corte / Inez Fitzgerald Storck
    We are made to be happy, to experience eternal beatitude, the face-to-face vision of God. And we attain to this happiness through our actions here below. The cardinal virtues are the key to ordering our acts to this end according to correct reasoning. Fortitude and temperance strengthen our will so that we will not succumb to fear or disordered passions. Justice regulates our r...
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    12,97 €

  • On the Death of a Civilization
    Marcel De Corte / Inez Storck
    First-ever translation of Essai sur la fin d’une civilisation originally published in 1949. Our contemporary civilization is in distress. Society is unraveling, with rampant individualism, moral dissipation, identity crises, unchecked consumerism, and social isolation. De Corte, writing in the mid-twentieth century, studies these trends and discerns their causes: the prevalence...
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    17,68 €

  • Intelligence in Danger of Death (English edition)
    Marcel De Corte / Brian Welter
    Well-known in the French-speaking world for his devastating critiques of the decadence of thought in the West since Descartes’s Cogito ergo sum, Marcel De Corte published Intelligence in Danger of Death as the final stage of his reflections in 1969. To grasp the profound mutation which man and society have undergone, Marcel De Corte offers a merciless analysis that relies on cl...
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    17,38 €

  • Intelligence in Danger of Death (English edition)
    Marcel De Corte / Brian Welter
    Well-known in the French-speaking world for his devastating critiques of the decadence of thought in the West since Descartes’s Cogito ergo sum, Marcel De Corte published Intelligence in Danger of Death as the final stage of his reflections in 1969. To grasp the profound mutation which man and society have undergone, Marcel De Corte offers a merciless analysis that relies on cl...
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    29,63 €