ISBN10: 1934255033
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A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues: The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life AUTH-7684781 ISBN10: 1934255033In this graceful, incisive book, writer philosopher Andr Comte Sponville reexamines the classical virtues to help us understand what we should do, who we should be, and how we should live. In the process, he gives us an entirely new perspective on the value, relevance, and charm of the Western ethical tradition. Drawing on thinkers from Aristotle to Simone Weil, by way of Aquinas, Kant, Rilke, Nietzsche, Spinoza, and Rawls, among others, Comte