Pagan Virtue: An Essay in Ethics by John Casey (University Lecturer in English, University of Cambridge, and Fellow, University Lecturer in English, University of Cambridge, and Fellow, Gonville and Caius College)
Dr Casey argues that the classical virtues of courage, temperance, practical wisdom, and justice, which are largely ignored in modern moral philosophy, centrally define the good for Man. The values of success, pride, and worldliness remain alive, if insufficiently acknowledged, part of our moral thinking. The conflict between these values and our equally important Christian inheritance leads to tensions and contradictions in our understanding of the moral life.