The House Of Nine Virtues

About the Book

The House Of Nine Virtues is a pragmatic response to the crisis of our age, a crisis best summarized by Flannery O’Conner’s observation that “in our fractured culture, we cannot agree on morals.” Professor Fogarty writes with acute awareness of historical moral constructs, but this book has little in common with those that merely suggest contemporary application of insights gleaned from other times and cultures. This work is a cohesive approach to life and morality that, because it is built on a foundation of universally shared aspirations, offers realistic hope for achieving cultural harmony.

About the Author

John Paul Fogarty was born in Washington, D.C. in June of 1933. After a diverse education, including a year as a nightclub singer, two years of army service during the Korean War, college, several years of federal civil service, and seminary, he became a professor of the history of religion and philosophy at Lenoir Rhyne College. In that role, for the next 35 years he taught, wrote, traveled to many lands, and pondered the nature of a well lived life. He died in September of 2003 in North Carolina.