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Author |
: Josef Pieper |
Publisher |
: Ignatius Press |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781586172565 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1586172565 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Leisure by : Josef Pieper
One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Joseph Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial than it was when it first appeared fifty years ago. Pieper shows that Greeks understood and valued leisure, as did the medieval Europeans. He points out that religion can be born only in leisure. Leisure that allows time for the contemplation of the nature of God. Leisure has been, and always will be, the first foundation of any culture. He maintains that our bourgeois world of total labor has vanquished leisure, and issues a startling warning: Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our cultureCand ourselves. These astonishing essays contradict all our pragmatic and puritanical conceptions about labor and leisure; Joseph Pieper demolishes the twentieth-century cult of Awork as he predicts its destructive consequences.
Author |
: Josef Pieper |
Publisher |
: Ignatius Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2011-07-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781681491707 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1681491702 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Faith Hope Love by : Josef Pieper
This volume, three separate books in one edition, is a collection of Josef Pieper's famous treatises on the three theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love. Each of these treatises was originally published as a separate work over a period of thirty-seven years, and here they are brought together in English for the first time. The first of the three that he wrote, On Hope, was written in 1934 in response to the general feeling of despair of those times. His "philosophical treatise" on Faith was derived from a series of lectures he gave in the late 1950s and early 1960s. His most difficult work, one that he struggled with for years - and almost abandoned - was his work On Love. Pieper now feels that this is the most important book he has written. He discusses not only the theological virtue of caritas-agape, but also of eros, sexuality, and even "love" of music and wine.
Author |
: Josef Pieper |
Publisher |
: Ignatius Press |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2011-06-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781681492841 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1681492849 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Josef Pieper by : Josef Pieper
Foreward by Hans Urs von Balthasar Near the end of a long career as one of the most widely read popular Thomistic philosophers of the twentieth century, Josef Pieper has himself compiled an anthology from all his works. He has selected the best and most representative passages and arranged them in an order that gives sense to the whole and aids in the understanding of each excerpt. Pieper's reputation rests on his remarkable ability to restate traditional wisdom in terms of contemporary problems. He is a philosopher who writes in the language of common sense, presenting involved issues in a clear, lucid and simple manner. Among his many well-known works included in this anthology are selections from Leisure: The Basis of Culture, The Four Cardinal Virtues, About Love, Belief and Faith, Happiness and Contemplation, and Scholasticism.
Author |
: Josef Pieper |
Publisher |
: Ignatius Press |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 2009-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781681492919 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1681492911 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Leisure by : Josef Pieper
One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared more than fifty years ago. This edition also includes his work The Philosophical Act. Leisure is an attitude of the mind and a condition of the soul that fosters a capacity to perceive the reality of the world. Pieper shows that the Greeks and medieval Europeans, understood the great value and importance of leisure. He also points out that religion can be born only in leisure - a leisure that allows time for the contemplation of the nature of God. Leisure has been, and always will be, the first foundation of any culture. Pieper maintains that our bourgeois world of total labor has vanquished leisure, and issues a startling warning: Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for non-activity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture - and ourselves.
Author |
: Josef Pieper |
Publisher |
: Ignatius Press |
Total Pages |
: 108 |
Release |
: 2011-06-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781681493619 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1681493616 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Hope by : Josef Pieper
This is a masterpiece on a forgotten virtue by one of the great Christian philosophers of the twentieth century. Pieper applies the perennial wisdom of Thomas Aquinas to the needs of the present day. Pieper illuminates the entire Christian life through the virtue of hope.
Author |
: Josef Pieper |
Publisher |
: Ignatius Press |
Total Pages |
: 174 |
Release |
: 2011-06-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781681492186 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1681492180 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Guide to Thomas Aquinas by : Josef Pieper
One of the great philosophers of the 20th Century, Josef Pieper, gives a penetrating introduction and guide to the life and works of perhaps the greatest philosopher ever, St. Thomas Aquinas. Pieper provides a biography of Aquinas, an overview of the 13th century he lived in, and a wonderful synthesis of his vast writings. Pieper shows how Aquinas reconciled the pragmatic thought of Aristotle with the Church, proving that realistic knowledge need not preclude belief in the spiritual realities of religion. According to Pieper, the marriage of faith and reason proposed by Aquinas in his great synthesis of a "theologically founded worldliness" was not merely one solution among many, but the great principle expressing the essence of the Christian West. Pieper reveals his extraordinary command of original sources and excellent secondary materials as he illuminates the thought of the great intellectual Doctor of the Church. "The purpose of these lectures is to sketch, against the background of his times and his life, a portrait of Thomas Aquinas as he truly concerns philosophical-minded persons today, not merely as a historical personage but as a thinker who has something to say to our own era. I earnestly hope that the speculative attitude which was Thomas' most salient trait as Christianity's "universal teacher" will emerge clearly and sharply from my exposition." - Josef Pieper
Author |
: Josef Pieper |
Publisher |
: University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages |
: 247 |
Release |
: 1990-03-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780268089894 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0268089892 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Four Cardinal Virtues by : Josef Pieper
In The Four Cardinal Virtues, Joseph Pieper delivers a stimulating quartet of essays on the four cardinal virtues. He demonstrates the unsound overvaluation of moderation that has made contemporary morality a hollow convention and points out the true significance of the Christian virtues.
Author |
: Josef Pieper |
Publisher |
: Ignatius Press |
Total Pages |
: 84 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0898703026 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780898703023 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Only the Lover Sings by : Josef Pieper
The popular and highly regarded Josef Pieper speaks of the necessity for human persons to be able to contemplate and appreciate beauty to develop their full humanity. Pieper expresses succinctly that the foundation of the human person in society is leisure, free time in which one can contemplate, be receptive to being and its beauty.
Author |
: Josef Pieper |
Publisher |
: Ignatius Press |
Total Pages |
: 68 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 089870362X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780898703627 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Synopsis Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power by : Josef Pieper
One of the great Catholic philosophers of our day reflects on the way language has been abused so that, instead of being a means of communicating the truth and entering more deeply into it, and of the acquisition of wisdom, it is being used to control people and manipulate them to achieve practical ends. Reality becomes intelligible through words. Man speaks so that through naming things, what is real may become intelligible. This mediating character of language, however, is being increasingly corrupted. Tyranny, propaganda, mass-media destroy and distort words. They offer us apparent realities whose fictive character threatens to become opaque. Josef Pieper shows with energetic zeal, but also with ascetical restraint, the path out of this dangerous situation. We are constrained to see things again as they are and from the truth thus grasped, to live and to work.
Author |
: Josef Pieper |
Publisher |
: Ignatius Press |
Total Pages |
: 132 |
Release |
: 2011-08-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781681492551 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1681492555 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis In Defense of Philosophy by : Josef Pieper
This book is an engagement between a great modern philosopher defending classical philosophy against an army of challengers to the very notion of philosophy as classically conceived. It is written very much in the spirit of the scholastic disputations in the medieval universities, which produced the great Summas: a mutual search for truth, a philosophical laboratory, a careful winnowing of each objection. Such objectivity is lamentably rare in contemporary philosophy. In order to combat modern misunderstandings of challenges to the classical concept of philosophy, Pieper shows us the unique and uniquely valuable thing philosophy is as conceived by his masters: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and above all, Aquinas. Along this path he scatters gems of insight, such as: art and religion as Philosophy's defenders; the relationship between philosophy and science; philosophy as "seeing and saying"; and philosophy as rooted in meditation and loving contemplation. Pieper emphasizes that philosophy is something all human beings do, and should be the better for doing.