Pequeño tratado de las grandes virtudes

Synopsis of Pequeño tratado de las grandes virtudes

«Pequeño tratado de las grandes virtudes» is the philosophical essay by André Comte-Sponville, published by Andrés Bello in paperback (355 pages, in Spanish).

Against an abstract good, it presents virtues as moral values embodied in acts and as a balance between two excesses: courage between cowardice and recklessness, gentleness between anger and apathy. Without moral lessons, it covers eighteen virtues, from courtesy to love, so that each person learns to guide themselves.

Original title in French: «Petit traité des grandes vertus». The Spanish edition was published in 1996.

For readers seeking an ethics close to the art of living and quotes from great thinkers; also for young people beginning in moral philosophy.