French philosophy andre comte sponville identifies eighteen of the great virtues. Explore books by andre comtesponville with our selection at. Andre comtesponville in his excellent book, great virtues, says that without politeness we would have to be virtuous to become virtuous. Aristot ie was righr, in one sense at least, to write that man is, a political animal bec,ause.
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