Table of Contents

Persons; Courage; Temperance; Practical Wisdom; Justice; Pagan Virtues?; Postscript: Homer, Shakespeare, and the Conflict of Values; Bibliography; Index

Reviews

`This is a delightful book: learned, without being dense; lucid, but not heartless.' Angela Tilby, Church Times
`Pagan Virtue deserves some of the highest praise which can be accorded to a work of philosophy: it speaks more directly to the general reader than to the specialist philosopher.'Mark Archer, Financial Times
`His style is succinct and vigorous ... his arguments are direct, unencumbered by jargon or verbiage. The whole thing is a triumph of commonsense and lucidity.'Simon Raven, Sunday Correspondent
`Written with guile and charm ... leaves one pondering life, luck and the cosmos for several weeks afterwards.'
Mark Archer, The Spectator
`By this philosophical study of the four cardinal virtues, John Casey joins the ever-expanding ranks of those moral theorists who have contributed to the contemporary theory of the virtues. But Casey's book is set apart from the others both by the exceptionally high quality of his analysis and even more by his thesis that traditional thinking on the virtues is in tension, at least, with fundamental Christian assumptions about the nature of the moral life.
For both these reasons, his book deserves serious attention, especially by those scholars who argue for a special congruity between virtue theory and Christian ethics ... Casey's work raises important
questions for contemporary moral theory ... His book deserves to be widely read and carefully debated.'
The Thomist
`a learned book of quite remarkable fluency and freedom from technical jargon'
Rev. John Kerr, Warden, Society of Ordained Scientists
`This book offers interesting ... nomenological analyses of various moral topics, illumined by well-chosen literary examples.'
The Review of Metaphysics