Josef Pieper - Böcker

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In this elegantly written (and produced) work, Josef Pieper introduces the reader to an understanding that leisure is nothing less than "an attitude of mind and a condition of the soul that fosters a capacity to perceive the reality of the wo...

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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 t...

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"Josef Pieper's account of the centrality and meaning of the virtues is a needed primer to teach us exactly the meaning and relationship of the virtues and how they relate to the faith and its own special virtues. Pieper's attention is ever t...

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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 con...

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In The Christian Idea of Man Josef Pieper brings off an extraordinary feat. He acknowledges that whoever introduces the theme of virtue and the virtues can expect to be met with a smile of various shades of condescension. He then proceeds to singl...

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In The Christian Idea of Man Josef Pieper brings off an extraordinary feat. He acknowledges that whoever introduces the theme of virtue and the virtues can expect to be met with a smile of various shades of condescension. He then proceeds to singl...

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This book exemplifies Piepers skills as a communicator. Despite his concentration on the depthswhich, beneath the stormy surface level of life, he is constantly able to plumbPieper is able to stage his profoundest thoughts. Here, in a clear and ap...

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This book exemplifies Piepers skills as a communicator. Despite his concentration on the depthswhich, beneath the stormy surface level of life, he is constantly able to plumbPieper is able to stage his profoundest thoughts. Here, in a clear and ap...

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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 theore...

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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 theore...

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This volume, the original version of which was published in 1988, brings to a close the autobiographical writings of a modern Christian philosopher who lived through the two World Wars and the ecclesiastical upheaval in the Catholic Church in the ...

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This volume, the original version of which was published in 1988, brings to a close the autobiographical writings of a modern Christian philosopher who lived through the two World Wars and the ecclesiastical upheaval in the Catholic Church in the ...

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Volume 2 of Josef Piepers three-part autobiography is here presented for the first time in English translation. The volume represents not just a simple continuation of a seamless story. The first volume dealt with Piepers life from his birth in 19...

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Volume 2 of Josef Piepers three-part autobiography is here presented for the first time in English translation. The volume represents not just a simple continuation of a seamless story. The first volume dealt with Piepers life from his birth in 19...

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Josef Piepers The Platonic Myths is the work of a scholar and philosopher whose search for the level of truth contained in the myths is carried out with a series of careful distinctions between the kinds of myths told by Plato. In the Platonic sto...

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Originally published: 'Uber die Platonischen Mythen. Munich: K'osel-Verlag KG, 1965.

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Josef Piepers readers become accustomed to the clarity of thought and expression in his writingin combination with the impression he gives of being profoundly in touch with fundamentals. His conceptual clarity emerges from his awareness of basic h...

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Josef Piepers readers become accustomed to the clarity of thought and expression in his writingin combination with the impression he gives of being profoundly in touch with fundamentals. His conceptual clarity emerges from his awareness of basic h...

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No better guide over the thousand-year period called the Middle Ages could be found than Josef Pieper. In this amazing tour de monde medievale, he moves easily back and forth between the figures and the doctrines that made medieval philosophy uniq...

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During the last months of the war, Josef Pieper saw the realization of a long-cherished plan to escape from the "lethal chaos" that was the Germany of that time, "plucked," he writes, "as was Habakkuk, by the hair of his h...

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This is a profound reflection on contemporary understandings and misunderstandings of what tradition is. Pieper argues powerfully that the modern scientific situation, and the zeal for the new, do not and cannot supersede the human need of traditi...

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For Pieper, the study of tradition is anything but antiquarian. He begins with a consideration of tradition in a changing world and is well aware of the need to confront the all-too-common perception that tradition is nowadays irrelevant. On the b...

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For Pieper, the study of tradition is anything but antiquarian. He begins with a consideration of tradition in a changing world and is well aware of the need to confront the all-too-common perception that tradition is nowadays irrelevant. On the b...

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