Books written by Josef Pieper
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Festschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen zu Ehren des Herrn Ministerpräsidenten Karl Arnold
Aber es ist noch fraglich, ob wir es bei Schiller und Hebbel noch mit echtem Verständnis des Tragischen im Ursinn zu tun haben und nicht mit einem Beginn einer neuen Auflösung in das stoische Verständnis des Heroischen.
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Tradition: Concept and Claim
Josef Pieper's Tradition: Concept and Claim analyzes tradition as an idea and as a living reality in the lives and languages of ordinary people.
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Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power
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.
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Faith, Hope, Love
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.
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Faith, Hope, Love
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. Pieper is perhaps the most popular Thomist philosopher of the twentieth century.
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On Hope
"This is a masterpiece of a forgotten virtue by one of the great Christian philosophers of the twentieth century"--Publisher's description.
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A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart
"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.
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Guide to Thomas Aquinas
Guide to Thomas Aquinas
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Leisure: The Basis of Culture
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.
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Leisure: The Basis of Culture
In leisure, man too celebrates the end of his work by allowing his inner eye to dwell for a while upon the reality of the Creation. He looks and he affirms: it is good. Now the highest form of affirmation is the festival; ...
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Werke / Frühe soziologische Schriften.: Ergänzungsband 1
Inhalt: Einleitung zu Rerum novarum (1929) · Die Grundbegriffe L. v.Wieses (1930) · "Wirklichkeitswissenschaftliche" Soziologie. Kritische Randbemerkungen zu Hans Freyer Soziologie als Wirklichkeitswissenschaft (1931) · Begriffsbildung in der Soziologie. Diskussionsbeitrag...
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Werke / Schriften zur Philosophischen Anthropologie und Ethik: Das Menschenbild der Tugendlehre
Unbeirrt durch wissenschaftliche Trends hat Josef Pieper es wie kein anderer verstanden, den ursprünglichen Sinn der antik-mittelalterlichen Tugendlehre erneut zugänglich zu machen und von seinen vielfältigen Mißdeutungen klar zu ...
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Werke / Darstellungen und Interpretationen: Thomas von Aquin und die Scholastik
Der Band enthält die wichtigsten Schriften Josef Piepers zu Thomas von Aquin und zur mittelalterlichen Philosophie sowie zwei bislang unveröffentlichte Vorlesungsmanuskripte. Inhalt: Über das Gute und das Böse. Vier Vorlesungen...
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Hope and History
" Pieper looks at the movement of history, the idea of progress, man's hope for a better future, and he counters the temptation to despair with a Christian philosophy of hope based on faith in divine providence and the compatibility of ...
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For Love of Wisdom: Essays on the Nature of Philosophy
True philosophy is not the work of joyless academics pondering over esoteric writings that have no relation to real life.
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Enthusiasm and Divine Madness: On the Platonic Dialogue Phaedrus
Plato's famous dialogue, the Phaedrus, was variously subtitled in antiquity: "On Beauty", "On Love", "On the Psyche". It is also concerned with the art of rhetoric, of thought and communication.Pieper,...
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For the Love of Wisdom: Essays on the Nature of Philosophy
This brilliant work synthesizes the meaning of philosophy as it pertains to our modern era, and responds to the spiritual needs and searching of modern man.
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"Divine Madness": Plato's Case Against Secular Humanism
The interpretation offered here focuses on Plato's thesis, which at first sight appears strange and unrealistic, that those experiences that advance human life to its true fullness are bestowed on us only during a "god-given" state of ...
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Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation
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.
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The Four Cardinal Virtues: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge
In The Four Cardinal Virtues, Joseph Pieper delivers a stimulating quartet of essays on the four cardinal virtues.