Exercises in the Elements Essays, Speeches, Notes (häftad)

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Format: Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 192
Utgivningsdatum: 2019-10-21
Förlag: St Augustine's Press
Medarbetare: Farrelly, Daniel J.
Dimensioner: 218 x 145 x 15 mm
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ISBN: 9781587312311

Exercises in the Elements Essays, Speeches, Notes

Name: Exercises in the Elements Essays, Speeches, Notes
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Author: Josef Pieper
ISBN: 9781587312311

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This title, which at first sight seems curious, shows Piepers philosophical work as rooted in the basics. He takes his inspiration from Plato and his Socrates and Thomas Aquinas. With them, he is interested in philosophy as pure theory, the theoretical being precisely the non-practical. The philosophizer wants to know what all existence is fundamentally about, what reality really means. With Plato, Pieper eschews the use of language to convince an audience of anything which is not the truth. If Plato was opposed to the sophists amongst them the politicians , Pieper is likewise opposed to discourse that leads to the use of philosophy to bolster a totalitarian regime or any political or economic system. A fundamental issue for Pieper is createdness. He sees this as the fundamental truth of our being all being and the fundamental virtue we can practise is the striving to live according to our perception of real truth in any given situation. The strength and attraction of Piepers writing is its direct and intuitive character which is independent of abstract systematization. He advocates staying in touch with the real as we experience it deep within ourselves. Openness to the totality of being in no matter what context being reveals itself and the affirmation of all that is founded in this totality are central pillars of all his thinking. Given the simplicity of this stance, it is no surprise that much of it is communicated and successfully through his gift for illustration by anecdote. Like Plato, this philosopher is a story-teller and, like him, very readable.

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