New Resource on the Virtues and Vices

Cascade press has published a new resource for work on the virtues and vices. The book is an anthology of source documents dealing with this tradition. The book is divided into sections with introductions for each section and each work. In addition, the book has a list of key works dealing with the virtues and vices and a solid bibliography.

Anthologized texts include excerpts from:

• Plato’s The Republic       
• Aristotle’s The Nicomachean Ethics
• Cicero’s Of Duties
• Proverbs
• Isaiah
• Matthew
• Paul’s Letters    
• Tertullian’s The Shows
• Prudentius’ Psychomachia         
• Evagrius Of Pontus’ On The Eight Thoughts
• Gregory The Great’s Commentary On Job
• Dante’s Purgatorio
• Machiavelli’s The Prince               
• Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
• Ben Franklin’s Autobiography
• Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good And Evil  And The Antichrist
• C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity

The book also includes all of

• Hildegard Of Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum

There are also sections dealing with

• Psychomachia Illustrations
• Illustrations Of The Speculum Virginum
• Notre Dame Of Amiens Twelve Virtues And Twelve Vices
• Giotto’s Virtues And Vices In The Arena Chapel
• Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Paintings In The Palazzo Pubblico, Siena 
• William Langland’s Piers Plowman
• Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Parson’s Tale   
• Pollaiuolo And Raphael’s Seven Virtues
• Andrea Mantegna’s Minerva Chases The Vices From The Garden Of Virtue          
• Bernaert Van Orley (Designer) And Workshop Of Pieter Van Aelst (Weaver) The Honors              
• Peter Brueghel The Elders’ Virtues And Vices    
• Kurt Weill And Bertolt Brecht’s The Seven Deadly Sins
• Paul Cadmus’ The Seven Deadly Sins