“One of the greatest contemporary Catholic philosophers, an intellectual concerned with politics and attentive to the unique reality of persons and things, humble before what is objective and thus opened to the truth. One great theme dominates De Corte's work the subjects of which are only apparently divergent: the vigorous denunciation of modern rationalism and an invitation to man to renew a bond with reality, without which he cannot live as a man. De Corte is above all a moralist and a philosopher of the state of crisis. As he himself declared, two subjects haunted him as a philosopher, the crisis of society and the crisis of the Church.” —Danilo Castellano, Italian philosopher and author whose works include L'aristotelismo cristiano di Marcel de Corte

“One of the greatest twentieth-century masters of the counterrevolution.” De Corte waged a battle of the intellect “against the current ‘dis-society’ of modern democracy, totalitarianism of the state, and the consumer society, and, at the same time, for the restoration of man in the fullness of his relationship to God, the world around us, and our neighbors. A brave, tireless warrior.” —Juan Vallet de Goytisolo, Spanish jurist and philosopher, author, among other works, of Ideología, praxis y mito de la tecnocracia

“For centuries, since the moral insights of Plato and Aristotle, the virtues were considered as the heart of morality. To be good meant cultivating virtue, a training of intellect and will toward goodness which affected even the body. Morality was not conceived merely as a dry adherence to external rules but as a change of life, a true internal transformation. It is this which Marcel De Corte, with so many lively and interesting comments on contemporary society, brings to life in this series of books. They are an important contribution to what is known today as ‘virtue ethics,’ a cultivation of the soul as old nearly as philosophy but just as important for our moral life today.” —Thomas Storck, author, editor and translator, most recently author of Economics: An Alternative Introduction (XIII Books)

“The image of De Corte, obtained from his writings in Itinéraires, has remained with me, with his devastating analysis of: the epistemological reversal of modernity; the derangement of what is the product of this, the ‘homo rationalis’; the irredeemable crisis of civilization; the corrupting character of politics founded on the ‘religion of democracy,’ and the tragedy which was—and still is—the crisis of the post-conciliar Church. De Corte, of an unsurpassed intellectual mettle, professed philosophical realism which is in perfect accord with his anti-modernism. The denial of an uncreated order of values leads to modernism and ends by negating tradition, religion and morality.” —Miguel Ayuso, Professor of Political Science at the Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid, and author of books on social and political topics, most recently, of ¿El pueblo contra el Estado?