It is 1941, the war raging across Europe has entered its third year, and Josef Pieper, a young Catholic philosopher from Germany, has just brought out a book, a lovely little thing of fewer than sixty pages called A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart, that has managed to escape Nazi censorship. Doubtless its very thinness, along with divine providence, enabled it to survive the book…
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