A Short Treatise on the Great Virtues
by Andre Comte-Sponville · first published 2003
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…would especially recommend Ecce Homo by him because it is a summation of his previous works by his own hand. Nietzsche was the supreme stylist and ruthlessly honest and fearless. Also I'd recommend A Short Treatise on the Great Virtues by a contemporary philosopher André Comte-Sponville. This is a remarkable book on virtue theory that takes in Aristotle, Spinoza, Nietzsche and Woody Allen among others and is divided up by virtue which…
on “Ask HN: Best Philosophical Books?” ↗I recall reading in a short treatise on the great virtues that politeness is how we acquire virtue; the only way we can learn to be humble is through acting humbly. But acting humbly out of politeness lets us break that circular dependency; we can then learn…
on “Be humble.” ↗