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On the Virtues and the Vices
The systematic framework of virtue and vice
A systematic framework of the virtues and vices from the great synthesizer of Eastern Christian theology. John of Damaskos organizes and classifies with characteristic precision, drawing on the entire preceding tradition. The text functions as a reference work — a map of the moral and spiritual life arranged with scholastic clarity. More useful for consultation than for continuous reading, it provides the structural framework that other Philokalic authors assume.